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mihai-florescu · 4 days

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Putting a message i sent earlier under a read more, it has some thoughts ive expressed before tho. ES, of course

My thoughts as an EichiP... i view ! and !! as different stories in the way they're approached tbh, what i fell in love with enstars for was the character driven storytelling of one event seen through different perspectives, where you see the antagonist in one perspective become a protagonist in another story and can empathize with the entire cast like this. I fell in love with eichi's story of second chances, getting what you want and regretting your actions in the process, redemption, desperation, overcoming fate and asserting one's self into the story, saving a school in a dying industry that saved your life by giving you a dream; i consider it an arc fulfilling to the reader at the end of ! era. But we still had to continue... and it's not like we didnt get inklings of eichi's dreams of idol utopia, the idol soldier idea goes back to main story 1, but !! loses the charm of the original series through expanding the worldbuilding so much and shifting to a plot driven story that opens 10 cans of worms instead of offering resolutions. There's not really room to breathe if the stakes just keep getting higher and higher...

As for the colonisation plotline, it's been here since the beginning of ES2. The SS arc makes it obvious, but i remember even before, the talks about ES taking over from local businesses, trying to be seen as the standard, it was always the direction ensemble square as an institution would take. But the "antagonist in one story, protagonist in another" approach doesnt work anymore with such subjects. The guys responsible for this are your coworkers you share dorms with. I read the stories but cant empathize anymore, so i've been feeling disconnected from eichi for a while. I see enstars with eichi at its core but i didnt care for his center event, i read it, didnt like the ending, and overall felt off. Eichi becoming the villain of ! to attone for the war kind of loses significance if a year later he is a cartoon villain idol colonialist you can't even sympathize with anymore because of the magnitude of events. However i do think !! has done good things for some characters pushing them further or developing them in a way ! didnt. But for others...

I also have my issues with sci fi elements becoming the norm, even taken metaphorically or as hyperboles, when one of the central themes i love about enstars is humanity. Then again, i am a war era fan that relied on manipulating human desires and perceptions, and the fact that there were no monsters or gods, just humans framed as such, playing on people's fears and beliefs, it's a bit jarring to me to have them introduce AIs forming from escaped comatose brains (im minimizing the switch climax rn, i didnt even hate it as a whole, just this resolution im unhappy with)

It also feels like we've lost some of the meta aspects of the writing i liked, a certain awareness of being characters in a story and there being an audience. But im still struggling to word my thoughts on this matter. I felt it present in main story 2, even if it annoyed me at parts in its obviousness ("good thing we're not protagonists, no one would want to read about us" youre right aira you are not interesting to me. And yet i'll read your story to try and empathize nevertheless. I have other thoughts on aira too, perhaps for another time). I wish we explored a bit more what it means to no longer be the central protagonist, from trickstar's perspective...and brought back the successors topic. But i havent read every ts story yet so i'd be foolish to complain before really making sure i've checked everything. To me ! ended satisfyingly with room left for elaborations and imagination, but i dont feel like !!'s ending is really ending anything at all. Not necessarily bad since it's not like the game is shutting down, but overwhelming worldbuilding wise while underwhelming character wise...

Let's see... im not sure how to end this. Just a bit of a stream of consciousness as a ! fan who still loves enstars despite my critiques. Mainly, well, no one's gonna take away the stories that already exist that i do love and impacted my life greatly. And i do think !! had some really good things too it brought, or at least stories i hold dear too. Change is scary and i don't think it's always for the best, but it's also fun to see where it goes next...

#enstars

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missmeinyourbones · 2 years

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i would literally kill for headcannons about the AOT boys’ (and girls and Hange too tbh) preferences in women atm, and written by you because your headcannons actually make me cackle out loud, and are so well-written and profoundly accurate. i’m feeling introspective like… who would really be into what traits? what shit actually captivates and attracts them? what little quirks allow someone to catch their eye? you seem to have such a well-rounded and thorough understanding of the characters so i thought i’d ask if that’s something you’d be interested in writing about<3

how fun!!!! here are a few thoughts on the matter…of course all personality and character traits, no physical ones :)

eren likes a s/o who’s a lil crazy LOL he likes spontaneity and fearlessness….he likes when someone is quick to say yes to new things or has a crazy story to tell at a party—he’s automatically pulled in by extroverted people. you tell him about how you pierced your own ear once or gave urself a stick and poke tattoo and he is horny on the spot

armin likes a s/o who’s a bit snippy, a bit dominant—he likes someone who knows what they want and isn’t afraid to fight for their own fairness. likes when someone keeps him on his toes with their quickness and brashness. ur at a party and someone accidentally bumps into him and doesn’t say sorry and you go right up to them like “you hit him, you owe him an apology” and he has to mentally muster up all of his strength not to get hard LOL

mikasa likes a gentle s/o, maybe a bit soft spoken and dreamy (kinda like her) who is very protective of and attentive to her. she’s used to being the giver—being the one to fill others cups with her own empty pot. when you put her first, above others and yourself (like she has done her whole entire life), she feels like it’s too good to be true. she loves someone who can prove that doting doesn’t have to mean weak—you can be sweet and salty, soft and driven

similar to armin, jean likes a s/o who’s a little mean LMFAOOO not like actually mean but he just loves to be walked like a dog. he loves a s/o that can “wear the pants in the relationship” and he can just sit back and be like wow...thats hot LOL. loves someone who can hold their own, as well as his own (even tho they dont have to be any means, he just thinks its attractive) he’s always been second choice so he loves someone standing up for him. someone hits on him and ur like “he’s my boyfriend :) do you not have fucking eyes?” and he’s literally mind body and soul all yours in that moment LOL. he admires someone who is straightforward and a bit aggressive with what they want/like

connie likes someone who can match his energy while simultaneously looking out for him and making sure he’s not being stupid lmfao. he loves someone who is willing try new things with him or express interest in something that he likes! but then when he gets a bit too into it and is about to make a bad decision, he appreciates when you hold him back. hes like “lets go out to the bar and see some friends tonight!” and ur like “yes! how fun!” and then you get there and hes like “i am gonna get so drunk, bartender gimme a round of shots!” and ur like “no, you have work tomorrow” and hes all “🫡🫡🫡 yes boss” he just loves to trust you blindly, his fav thing about you is knowing that you always do whats best for him

sasha likes someone who is patient. patience and kindness are so important to her!!!! she always tries to put her best foot forward and be kind to all without reasoning, so when her s/o does the same thing to her???? shes folding. shes often overlooked for being “slow” or “stupid” so when you praise her and treat her with respect, or take a moment to explain something to her instead of overlooking it, she appreciates that so so so so much. she is so attracted to someone who is genuine and caring and communicative....she loves to repay you for all you do (esp in the bedroom, shes a giver ;P )

hange is attracted to responsibility and stability. they need a s/o who will remind them to eat, go to bed, shower, etc. they love knowing that someone is looking out for their best interest, that they are someone’s first priority in a way as sweet and intimidate as domestic little errands or chores. they like someone who is attentive and observant—someone who remembers the little details of their tangents and asks them to further elaborate on something that intrigued them. hange loves effort

levi likes a clingy s/o….yes i think he’s overwhelmed at first bc he’s not used to receiving attention and openly accepting love in forms of physical or verbal affirmations…but once he experiences it, he’s addicted. he loves a s/o who always wants to be around him, touching him, resting on him, always near and with him in some capacity. he likes the permanence of a life long commitment to someone. he is so so so incredibly attracted to loyalty…the thought of you choosing him to spend the rest of your life with makes him literally feral

reiner likes a supportive s/o bc i think he needs a lot of reassurance and validation :/ he likes someone who will constantly verbally remind him of their love for him. likes a communicative and doting s/o. he’s such a big baby—you scratch his back when he’s laying down and the intimacy of the simple act has him tearing up like you’re scratching my back??? of all peoples backs you could be scratching??? 🥹🥹 he needs help lol

porco likes to be the boss of someone, or rather think that he’s being the boss of someone (when he’s in reality not in control at all lmfao) ive said this a handful of times but he likes to be the fun police. likes to watch over you, let you have your fun but stop you when you’re being too reckless (kinda the opposite of connie), likes to be the one to pull you in and say ok that’s enough 🤨 or what am i gonna do with you 🤨 when in reality he is wrapped around ur lil finger, constantly thinking about you and if youre ok / having fun

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engie-the-profit · 10 months

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worst popular infinite headcanon?

oh my. this one got long so im going to spare peoples dashes by putting this under a cut haha

anyways my answer is: making him out to be a little crybaby who is driven purely by revenge and sadness to make the world pay for shadow killing his squad mates, whom he loved in a normal way and saw them as family or whatever. it makes his character so goddamn flat and boring bc thats such a standard villain motivation, and it entirely strips away a lot of his personality even when theres already so little to work with LMAO

i know ive spoken about it at length in the dog&hog server but to me, infinites most notable trait is that hes selfish

in the prequel comic rise of infinite (yay, prequel comic talk. everyones favourite, i know) he deliberately ignores any protests from his gang against accepting eggmans deal of working with him, because eggy singles him out and offers him a place at his side to bring his fantasy of ruin into reality. not infinite and his crew, just infinite

(image has two comic panels. in the first one, eggman is reaching a hand out to infinite as he says "now you are an interesting guy. i like you. how about i hire you to lead my forces? together we'll take over the world!" in the second panel, one of the jackal squad members says "boss! dont be tempted by him. we'll be fine!")

and infinite says yes after briefly talking about how he personally feels bored and tired of how the world is right now

(image has two panels. in the first, infinite is mumbling to himself, first laughing and then saying "interesting. all this time ive been going through the motions. ive actually grown quite tired of the world as it is." in the second panel he stands and says "lets do it doctor! i'll help you change this world!")

again, its a decision based off an entirely personal and individualistic opinion that only takes his own feelings into account. you would think that if he valued his squad to the extent that they were "like family" to him, he would have listened when they said he shouldnt make a deal with eggman. if he actually cared about them as much as he cared about himself, he would have trusted them enough to say no. instead he only thinks about what he wants and what he can get, not about what will happen to the others

ive always been of the opinion that infinite used his squad and position of authority as their leader to prop himself up and viewed them more like underlings or subjects that he could order around and be superior to, rather than equals whose opinions and input he valued. maybe he started out having more camaraderie with the other jackals, but it certainly doesnt show by the time we get to the events of the prequel comic, and even less so when we get to episode shadow/the main game

the idea that he saw his squad more like tools to make himself look better than people also makes more sense because when in episode shadow, eggman calls infinites squad "useless" directly to him and all infinite says is "yeah, yeah" in a very uncaring fashion. even when he then spots shadow and says "you.. you destroyed my squad!" its entirely unconvincing to me that he said it out of sorrow or sadness; to me it was more like simple anger that it happened. because now without his little group of followers that looked up to him and did whatever he told them to, he had nobody to feel superior to. he couldnt go on any more power trips by being The Boss bc there was nobody left to indulge him, no one to stoke his ego, nobody to be the boss of. so thats why he felt slighted by shadow in the first place; how dare this hedgehog take away what made him feel special and important. and then of course the ensuing humiliation that came afterward was just the icing on the shit cake haha

it also explains why infinite never brings up his squad in any of his monologues (besides the prequel comics and episode shadow being obvious afterthoughts to the main game loool); he just doesnt care. if anything, their loss was his gain bc it pushed him towards acquiring the phantom ruby and getting to go on the ultimate power trip of world domination and near total subjugation of the population. i think that also ties into his mindset that friends make you weak and you cant rely on anyone but yourself; in his case, thats literally true. if he hadnt lost his squad, if he had initially listened to them, the chain of events we know well would not have come to pass and he would not have gotten to become the powerhouse he did. he would have still been leading his monotonous life and following the same old script. from his perspective they really did hold him back, and only once they were gone was he able to become stronger. he reiterates this by thanking shadow in the dlc for doing what he did in mystic jungle (killing the jackal squad and kicking infinites ass) bc otherwise he wouldnt have gotten the incentive he needed to take on the mantle of becoming a super powered weapon

and if you want some more evidence thats admittedly a lot more of a stretch, you could also interpret infinite creating a posse of past sonic foes as him filling the void of using the jackal squad that was created after shadow had taken them down. he gets to control people again (even if theyre clones that had no choice but to obey him but nyeh i told you it was a stretch), he gets to be a leader again

idk, i just think that having a sob story as a main motivation is (funny joke here) weak. i have never once thought that infinite needs to have some kind of sympathetic or tragic backstory. and maybe thats just my own personal bias coming through bc i prefer villains that are evil for reasons like their moral philosophies or have some kind of goal that makes the audience go "maybe they do have a point tbh" and villains that are just evil for the sake of it over villains that say "my mom died" as if that is any kind of justifiable explanation. imo it almost always comes off as them making an excuse, and its lame. just own it, yknow?

so yeah if i could block one thing from the minds of infinite fans it would be the hc that infinite was tightly knit with the jackals and wanted what was best for them. bc with all the evidence ive seen, its not supported at all, and hes actually the exact opposite; he does what he wants and uses who he wants for his own purposes and gain

also yes i do think shadow straight up killed the other jackals and i do think thats in character for him but thats a conversation for another day

#he said ask #bitter-sweet-coffee #engie.txt #infinite the jackal #sonic forces #sth #jackal squad #as with every opinion i have #remember that this is just that. an opinion #idc what anyone else does #if you want infinite to sob over losing his besties then fine #but dont act like its the most reasonable and backed up interpretation of canon #bc the evidence simply isnt there #im more than happy to enjoy canon all by myself #sitting alone in my i-love-respecting-canon corner

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mamuzzy · 3 months

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I dont know if its been asked before, but who is your favourite clone?

Also who is your favourite touken ranbu character?

Thank you so much, Anon, for this ask! I really felt shitty today, and I couldn't form any coherent verbal form of my thoughts about Ordo Skirata and Nikkari Aoe, so I ended up drawing them together in one picture. :)))) And suprisingly their dynamic works well in my head!!! Lately I'm really focused on Ordo Skirata, and yes I think I answered a question before who is my favorite from Repcomm, and my answer to that was also Ordo, so... yeah, my fixation about this character is pretty much the same as it was during the summer. I find easier to talk about Nikkari somehow, probably because Touken Ranbu is not actively in my head, so it's easier to step back and think it through but when I have to think about Ordo it's more like...

(It also doesn't help that I have "it's muffin time" on loop in my brain.) But I do my best :))) Under the cut.

I usually drawn to characters with issues, especially when those issues resonates with me somehow. And oh boy, these two have issues!!!

Struggles, insecurities and needyness they both try to hide it behind being highly effective and practical surface while both have confidence in their skills to the point they appear cocky.

Why I love Ordo... I love highly competent characters who are also a big mess due to fear of failure, so their whole existence is being overcompensated by constantly pursuit perfection. Not because Ordo is really driven by the love for knowledge, but so nobody will find a questionable trait about him. He has to know everything otherwise he is a failure. And if he actually messes up things, he quickly wants to find a way to do damage control because he is also sure about himself, he can fix it.

But it's only go for the people HE LOVES. And oh he loves obsessively. He doesn't care about strangers opinions and feelings. Abandonment issues strengthening this feeling that if he is no longer useful, the people he cares about would abandon him, and this feeling is especially strong toward Kal'buir. And no matter how many reassurances Kal gives to Ordo, when the "I'm not perfect so I'm good as dead" spiraling goes on, no loving words and caring can ease the pain and the dread of being alone.

Oh boy, this is one stressed out blorbo…

As for Nikkari... My other favorite thing is when a character is an outcast, or treated as an outcast in communities. There were few lines that indicated maybe the residensts of the Citadel are not entirely comfortable with his presence due to his history.

I interpret Nikkari as someone who can be seen as a war veteran due the fact he is one of the few swords actually having fight-exprecience, given he was owned by multiple samurai lords actively waging war. But he used to be SO MANY things! He was forged as a Divine Sword, only his whole existence is tainted by that tale of cutting down the ghost of a mother and her child.

Sometimes I HC the swords having special abilities, the more older they are, the more chance they have, also being a Divine Swords also grants them godly powers, but yeah, because the ghostchild-killing tale is so ingrained into his identity that he is robbed from ever being able to ascend to divinehood. Compared to Ishikirimaru who I HC as a the divine healer of the Citadel. And from that, had a short period where he accompanied many generals to war, and finaly he acted as a guardian spirit of the Kyogoku clan's castle.

According to his lines, he describes himself quite versatile, and encourages the Sage to use him as they see fit, he will "change his colors" according to the wishes of the master. (Mind that, this is all pre-kiwame brainstorming.) But you just have to take a look at his clothes, it's plain, it's practical, no decorations (compared to the kiwame uniform), but in Hanamaru he is pretty much collector of treasures, shiny and soft stuff, loves to eat, so he desires to have nice things. I think this is one of the reason I really love to HC him to be friends with Hachisuka Kotetsu, Souza Samonji and Kasen Kanesada. These guys are so out of his league, he wants to be pretty, elegant, and being in touch with his softer side through arts just like them.

And these two met somehow... Honestly, if Ordo and Nikkari would ever meet, I don't think the communication would be so easy between them at first. Because Nikkari is constantly using puns and innuendos in his speech. Also, Nikkari's facial expression is not always easy to read either due to always smiling (also inherited from the Ghost lady). But hey, Ordo grown to like Fi as well! Fi is just not a pervert - canonically... :DDD But yeah, Nikkari also pretty much knows how to push buttons, and find a way to tease Ordo. Ordo would chase him through the whole citadel for it. But also I think Nikkari would understand him. Burdens of the past are there, Nikkari suffers from the thing he can't change and never was in his control to begin with. Ordo (and his brothers) suffers from mistreating then being labeled as a reject when they didn't meet with the expectations. Also I think a clonefied Nikkari would make an excellent ARC Trooper. Ugh this got so long, I hope I didn't make you bored that much.

#ordo skirata #republic commando #nikkari aoe #touken ranbu #crossover #mamuzzy draws stuff #blorbo rambling

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doodlegirl1998 · 8 months

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Off to bed but I want to rant/vent about Shig. The shirtless king who deserve a better writing but hori.

His hate for the heroes doesnt make sense. I once thought how his hate for AM could make sense in a veer "afo took me off the streets and am hurt him" which is a good angle to work...the problem?

We dont see their dynamic. At first they are boss and minion.

"Afo manipulated him" how and why? We never saw this. We only are told. By what we saw should Shig hate afo.

(It was Dr Garaki who give the hands to Shig...and yet he has no problem in talking to the Dr)

Afo just forget he existed until plot kick in.

Like he was living god knows where (bet it wasnt nice)

He has a bar that was second class at best.

And money is anyone guess.

But back to Shig's hate. As I said before if we were show how Afo really put a show of "good sensei" and fed lies to Shig...that could work and could make somewhat sympathetic.

But nope. Shig has acess to infos. If Afo says "am eats babies, source? Trust me bro" he can read newspaper, go to the internet...but nope.

And on that note, lets assume he has a reason to hate AM, a legit one. How this transfer to destroy the entire hero civilization? What this will enthrall?

Hori:🙄who cares? Here my beloved.

And that's it. His motivations make no sense, his feelings are whatever the plot needs and not defending afo here bc I want him dead but I cant see canon afo as a max manipulater. Dude just watched shig have a breakdown about the hands amused...shig should have hated on sight.

To sum up: Nothing shig does makes sense and Hori wont bother now. But I do like this is the only person who has Izu 24/7 on his mind.

Hi @mikeellee 👋,

As much as I like Shig I have to agree with this.

All these problems can be summed up with: Hori's tell do not show method.

We don't see enough of AFO and Shig's dynamic for a lot of the beginning of the story we see more Kuro and Shig together rather than AFO and Shig. Canonically, AFO acts like a distant boss at best to Shig and an active tormentor at worst which isn't very smart of him at all.

AFO is meant to be a manipulator of Shig yet Shig has unlimited access to outside information sources (such as newspapers) and is allowed to go out wherever he pleases without consulting him (I.e meeting Izu at the mall was all Shig.) So that also falls flat...

AFO tells Shig his only purpose is to destroy, sets baby Shig on other people to kill them and he (along with the Doctor) present Shig with his families dead hands and tell him to wear them.

Logically, Shig should loathe both AFO and the Doctor for all of that yet Shig has no problem with the Doctor (nor AFO till he possessed him.)

But instead Hori presents us with Shig wanting to "Destroy all" which is a childish motivation and fails to make sense. (All the corgis and games he loves would be gone too.)

There's also Shig's hatred of heroes, namely AM, which also fails to make sense. Kotaro hated heroes, a traumatised baby Shig was left wondering the streets because everyone was waiting for a hero to come but

1) why does he hate AM specifically? AM did nothing to him and Kotaro never mentions anything like Nana abandoning him for AM to give Shig a reason to have AM hatred.

2) AFO did, far, far worse to Shig. So Shig's hatred should have always been far more aimed toward AFO.

It would have been a good dynamic to have Izu and Shig bond over their shared AFO hatred - missed opportunity there Hori!

TLDR - Shig's character and his reactions to things were always far more driven toward 'the plot needs it this way' rather than what makes actual sense for his character.

#mha critical #Bnha critical #Shigaraki Tomura critical

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opbackgrounds · 2 years

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So if kinda of a long question and I will really appreciate if to hear your take on this , I started watching and reading one piece not that long ago and robin became my fevorite character in the series , because her story and character is so interesting and complex and I do believe that him the final saga she will be one of the most important characters in it, but then I remember that she started as a villain and was working with crocodile to destroy an entire kingdom and she didn’t seem to have a problem with it ,and that was forgiven easily and was not brought up again in the plot, and now I have a problem with liking because it’s hard for me to know that she didn’t care about letting innocent people get hurt despite she has experienced in the past and I feel like until i will not see a redemption arc or at least for her that ties directly with what she did in alabsta , or at least an apology for what she did there to vivi once she will meet her again , I will have a hard time to like and relate to her character again. I know that you also like robin and that she is also your favorite character in the series and that you understand her character better then I ever will , so my point is how does that not bother you to like her character even though what she did in alabsta and that ? Because I dont want that bother me as well because now every time that I see her in the anime or in the manga I am reminded that she Helped to almost ruining a peaceful kingdom and and harming a lot of Innocent people and she didn’t care about it, i know that because of her past she didn’t care about the world but that still bother’s me.

Well, mostly it’s because Alabasta isn’t a real place and the people who suffered don’t exist. There’s nothing wrong with liking a character whose done bad things and don’t regret it —some of my favorite characters in all of fiction are absolute shitbags with no redeeming qualities. Fiction exists as a safe place to engage with scenarios that would be unpleasant or taboo in real life, and to me how the story handles those kinds of subjects is much more important than fretting whether or not they’re problematic or bad in the first place. I wouldn’t like it if the narrative pretended that Robin did nothing wrong, but the story itself does not care. Maybe someday if Vivi reunites with the crew we might get something between her and Robin, but not even she the princess whose country was nearly ruined by Robin’s actions is upset that she’s traveling with the crew. One Piece is not a series that concerns itself with right and wrong. They’re pirates. It literally does not matter.

But for the sake of argument, let’s take a minute to think about what might have driven Robin to that place to begin with. Because she did try to lead a normal life as a kid, even after getting her bounty. And every time she tried, the people around her tried to have her arrested or killed because they were too afraid or too tempted by the price on her head. She had no choice but to turn to a life of of crime, and that life led her to Crocodile.

Why should someone who had been mistreated their entire life give a flying fuck about the lives of people who would kill her if given half a chance? Because, sure, maybe if Robin ended up at King Cobra’s doorstep as a kid he might have protected her, but probably not. Just like his citizens would have turned over an eight year old to the marines to be executed. It’s simple, bloody arithmetic: kill or be killed. After twenty years, no wonder Robin stopped caring about the people she was hurting to achieve her goals. The entire world literally wanted her dead.

Instead of getting into the morality of what someone in those desperate circumstances might do, One Piece is a story about how you can grow past that with the help of people who truly care about you. That’s just as important as any good vs evil story out there, because there are a lot of people like Robin in the world who deserve just as much empathy and kindness even if they’ve done terrible things in their past.

Even if none of that was true and Robin was just sort of an asshole who didn’t mind the fact that she nearly destroyed a country, it doesn’t matter. She’d probably still be my favorite because I latched onto her as a kid like a baby duck and declared her mine. Sometimes that’s all there is to it, and that’s okay. Bad people can be interesting characters. Maybe I wouldn’t want to go out to get lunch, but reading about them is fun, and at the end of the day reading *should* be fun.

#sarc talks #long post

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slowpokedragon · 2 years

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theres something very chilling about maes hughes. he is a man who has to be a good person to us as viewers. he is portrayed so incredibly sympathetically, because he has a wife and daughter who he loves very much, and he tries his best to protect ed and al, and he dies attempting to uncover state secrets.

but the only reason he really was getting into state secrets at all is because roy asked him to. the only reason he feels any remorse over the ishvalan genocide isnt because it was an objectively horrific thing- it was because ROY was remorseful and actively portrayed as suicidal and attempting to atone. he cared because he cares about roy, not because he cares about what he has done in the name of his country as a soldier, as an intelligence officer, and as another instrument of an authoritarian, fascist regime, which amestris IS.

i think too many people refuse to look at maes critically because he dies and therefore is sympathetic, but considering roy wanted to become fuhrer to try everyone who was involved in the ishvalan genocide (because i refuse to call it a war when it was so one-sided) because the system and the public hailed them as heroes (including HIMSELF!!!! roy canonically wanted to put himself on trial, he didnt exempt himself) i dont think maes would have been spared from that!

especially considering conqueror of shamballa, where maes hughes is genuinely a nazi soldier and sees nothing wrong with it until EDWARD (a retired soldier from a fascist regime who knows the military is nothing but dogs and was using their resources to atone for his own sins and attempt to fix his brother, not even himself, (and in a way committed suicide by doing what he did at the end of 03, because i think dimensional travel counts as a form of suicide to the people left behind)) makes him confront that ugly, horrifying truth.

maes hughes is canonically not a man who self-examines and attempts to improve past awful mindsets. not like roy does, not like edward does, and not like riza does. and the difference between them is that all three of those characters are aware of what they have done and what atrocities they have committed, and attempt to atone for them even when they know that they won't be forgiven for it, and arent even seeking forgiveness in the first place, just redemption.

maes does NOT do this. he helps roy and does things for him not because he knows its the right thing to do, but because roy asked him to. because he values roy as a friend. that is fucking dangerous. what if roy wanted something genuinely awful for amestris and for the ishvalan refugees living in the slums? i think, considering what we know of maes, he would have followed along, just because roy is his friend.

fma (and all of its incarnations) is a wonderful examination of on-the-surface kind and good people doing genuinely horrible things, and attempting to atone for those things their entire lives, knowing that it will never make up for what theyve done and what trauma theyve inflicted onto others and themselves. it is an examination of how even the nicest kindest people can be capable of monstrous things and not even fucking bat an eye. "just following orders".

and for the record, i think scar is exempt from this, to some extent. the revenge arc where they try to show roy and scar as parallels is.. it leaves a bad taste in my mouth, and they never should have been shown as similar or meant to mirror one another. roy was continuing a cycle of murder, damn the consequences, in a personal revenge quest for his friend. scar was expressing rage and grief over his entire people being slaughtered and driven from their homes and their religion being torn down and being hatecrimed in the country they fled to, the very country that did this to them because it was their only option, and KNEW he might die in the process and all he had to say for that was "i have done all i can". scar did kill people, but honestly i cannot say they didnt fucking deserve it, as soldiers who did genuinely participate in the ishvalan genocide. (this is a direct mirror, i think, to how POC are portrayed in the media. as much as i can contribute anyways, as a white person who isnt jewish.)

the only moment where we see scar as being in the wrong (or at least me) is when he tries to kill edward, but honestly i see where he is coming from in that respect too. he has no idea who edward is, only that he appears to be this fucking brainwashed child taken in by the military for being a prodigy, and he will become an instrument of war. he didnt know anything about ed, or that ed was attempting to atone for his OWN sins, or that he was planning to retire once he got what he needed from the military and the state.

i cant fault him for killing ninalexander either. it was genuinely suffering and a twisted creature made by, again, a man who seems easygoing and good on the surface and loves his kid (and his wife) before succumbing to desperation to keep money in his pocket and food on his table, even at the expense of his loved ones. another example of how people who can seem so kind are capable of atrocity.

#fma #fullmetal alchemist #fmab #fullmetal alchemist 03 #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #fma 03 #fma conqueror of shamballa #fullmetal alchemist conqueror of shamballa #anime #manga #animanga #longpost #literary criticism #maes hughes #roy mustang #scar the ishvalan #scar fma

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monstertsunami · 1 year

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okay i cannot for the life of me remember the names of the pafl people (i am. bad at names. as evidenced by me not having one) so gimmie the pafl ship you've got Brainworms about right now. not in the sense of love or hate, but the one that just has a specific rant locked n loaded for and which leaves you awake at night.

HI HIII IDC THAT YOU DONT KNOW THEIR NAMES IM JUST SO HAPPY THAT YOURE SENDING ME AN ASK ABT MY FIXATION DESPITE KNOWING NOTHING ABOUT IT <333<3333<3

temnova/olya would be way too obvious for this SO instead im gonna ramble abt sergei/olya my favorite ever (so-called) m/f ship<3<3

forgive me in advance for fumbling my analysis bc words do not come to me well n settling with the second-best word choice always ends up skewing the meaning.. i am also not good at organizing my thoughts at all lol :p

sergolya (made up the ship name myself bc idk if theres a widley used one oops) is a canon ship and thats why its GOOOD. bc pafl is like. REALISTIC and not in the annoying nihilistic grimdark way but just in the way that the characters feel so natural with how they interact with each other and the world and how they react to situations and how situations effect them... its just. real as fuck. absolutely insane skill on ferry's part. but this is REALLY GOOD for every pafl relationship, romantic or not, because they're complex.

sergei and olya have a flawed relationship! theres a lack of communication, sergei being sergei, olya being olya, etc. but its still so so obvious that they love each other DEEPLY! maybe olya's blinded by her insecurities and maybe sergei doesnt externalize it in an obvious way, but when you look even an inch deep into their motivations throughout the entire story, especially when they make poor decisions, its just intertwined with their love for each other.

now where sergolya REALLY gets developed is in The Mill, which specifically touches on olya's insecurities and sergei's overbearing-ness. yes this is why its my favorite pafl song :3

olya appears stoic and logical, she never looks affected by anything, she is taking a fucking prison sentence with stride. but shes still a very emotional person at heart, shown by her affection towards anya, some random kid that keeps following her home, and her getting so attatched to a mutant that she puts herself at risk to keep him safe. all very illogical, emotion driven actions that you wouldnt expect from her based on her external disposition. olya is not as untouchable as she lets off, and she is especially deeply affected by nikita's view of her. (even before kolya's death he was an asshole. fucking misogynist) she cant help but take nikita's harsh words to heart, and that effects her and sergei's relationship. she's terribly afraid of opening up to him in fear that he will leave her the same as nikita left nadya, and has trouble internalizing and accepting the love he expresses to her. she desperately wants to ask for some reassurance, some promise that he wouldnt one day just decide that shes too much of a burden, that shes not worth it anymore, and abandon her. she DESPERATELY wants him to love her, but she just cant accept that he already does love her for herself.

"ill draw a circle in the sand / drive myself around the bend / in a desperate attempt to hold onto your battered hand"

now this is where the dramatic irony comes in. because seeing his internal monologue in the mill, the same song where olya was lamenting about all that, it is very very obvious that he cares so deeply for olya. now sergei has his issue with being overbearing and overprotective when it comes to those he loves, sheltering sanya to the point where she acts out and befriends yura. its his primary flaw, but god if it isnt the most prominent indicator of sergei's attachment to a person. once you know that about him and how he expresses those types of emotions, he practically wears his heart on his sleeve. he wants what he thinks is best for her and sanya and he really DOES care so so much about them both but he doesnt stop to think and its so. oh my god i just love them both so much u dont understand.

"now my only hope is that one day youll understand / ill wrap the chain round my heart and her hammering neck / and save whats left / though i know that someday this weight will come to break my back"

just the way that sergei and olya have such similar problems that manifest in different ways to affect their relationship. olya masks her emotions bc of experiences with misogyny and shes trying to be a Strong Woman and.. sergei masks his bc the environment he grew up in (& his own experiences and traumas) fostering toxic masculinity(???) and poor coping mechanisms. and so its this ouroboros of poor comminication because sergei doesnt know how to show olya he loves her and he doesnt even know thst she needs that because she wont TELL him and then SHE goes on to think that sergeis percieved indifference is his lack of affection and CONTINUES not telling him out of fear of rejection. i. UGH. these two are destroying my mind

thanks for reading if u got this far. have my favorite official sergolya doodles

(i could write an extra essay on my thoughts abt these doodles specifically as well but ill spare you<3)

#:3 #sorry this took 4 ever to answer i had to find time to sit down and write this all #BUT I AM SOO HAPPY THAT UR INDULGING ME IN MY WEIRD INTERESTS THAT U KNOW NOTHING ABT #SQUEE #sergei #olya #boss makes a dollar i make a dime thats why i answer asks on company time #pafl #schziobabble #long enough to go in my talk tag

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sango-obligato · 1 year

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shout out to the chip fandom for being legit TRAUMATIZING. not even saying that as a joke or exaggeration!!! i know/know of so many good people who got their mental health totally RUINED by the awful people there. im one of them!!! its SOO much more horrible than a lot of people realize or even want to talk/think about. so many are literally scared to speak of the effect it had on them because theyre scared itll happen all over again + because it was literally just That Fucking Bad. even im not coming off anon for this. fuck that!!!

from my perspective… theres genuinely like no good people left because they all got chased off + traumatized in the process. i honestly think even the writers themselves got chased off by the toxicity. the hiatuses + *the ending in particular* just line up WAY TOO WELL with awful shit happening for that to not be the case… :/

and it sucks too because it was such a good and diverse story! it was really finally getting interesting!!! some of the plot lines before it all just stopped were legit gut wrenching (/pos!!!) + incredible to watch! the way it humanized the characters was so!!!!!! GOOD!!!!! but it’s all gone now because some people are just total fucking toxic freaks and heckled + harassed literally everyone out of the community no matter how hard it tried to keep stable…. its so depressing. it was fun while it lasted but i never want to go back + it will literally never be the same as it was a couple years ago. and at this point i think that’s a good thing

sorry for the random suuuuper long anon. i know youre a smaller account and probably dont want to talk about this kind of thing. its just been on my mind and youre one of the few people ive seen be openly critical of it all. hope u have a nice day + this finds you well at least!! :)

[ this turns into a rant in the end but its gotta be said lol ]

hi anon, thanks for the ask !! i pretty much have no choice to be open about this all because no-one else ( apart from like. 2 people ) will, i would say much more if it wasnt for my awfully limited vocabulary LOL ( and unless you wanna see a 16 year old cursing and throwing every insult in the english language at the people who hurt / manipulated my friends, well um !!! )

it just hurts seeing the fandom get worse and worse, one of my friends was literally almost driven to suicide because of the toxicity and abuse from the modern fandom, my confidence was snatched away after shit that happened in june - everything has just been SHIT !!!!

ive been actively trying to disassociate from the fandom entirely but its been extremely hard ( especially with my hyperfix on who i call ''little guy the 2st'' - the most i can do is wait for the hyperfix to pass at this point ), everytime i check in i know its just gonna be the same now: people who pretend nothing happened and attempt to cover up everything that happened before they ''''apologized'''' ( and i thought they were gonna keep the bad shit they did up for accountability !! what happened to that ????? ), people who will desparately manipulate unsuspecting people just so their wittle friend can look like the ''uwu sweet bean x3 owo angel who was definitely never ever ever transphobic in their life !!'' - you get the fucking picture at this point LOL

everything has fucking demotivated me and i wish i could fucking scream at Those people, but whats the point of doing so if they're just not gonna pull their heads out of their asses and just admit what they did instead of being like ''WAAAAAH YOURE SUCH A MEAN MEAN PERSON I DIDNT DO THAT AT ALL STOP SPREADING LIES, N-NO !!!!! ;_____;'' ?? i dont care if i get attacked by those people anymore because its only gonna prove my point on how fucking toxic they are i feel so bad for unsuspecting people who dont know how bad the fandom really is and what they'll end up diving into like i did, like my ex-friend did too

again, thanks for the ask anon and im so so so sorry you had to witness this all :[

#suicide mention tw #thanks for the ask anon <:] /gen #i was genuinely scared that my criticism of the chip fandom was just coming across as annoying and shit #especially with how often i talked about it #especially on my twitter + my circle #time for silly ol' val to find something else to obsess over and pray what they get into isnt toxic </3 #harmony squeaks #harmony rants #harmony on the net #ask

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james-fun-in-the-sunderland · 11 months

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all main 4:

16, 35, 39, 44, 54, 62, 64, 69

for party q’s, u can either do just main 4 to answer or like full rebellion or like . main 4 pcs and npcs.. up 2 u!

omg hi zee 👋 obligatory link back to tha ask game post

16. What keeps them going?

Swords: not to be corny but hope and love :) she has hope that everything will work out in the end and is also very driven by the people around her!! helping them out, giving them hope in hopes that theyll give her the hope she needs in return almost... w2 moments

Wiz: WHAT DOES KEEP THIS GUY GOING????? LACK OF DEATH MAINLY I GUESS. and moreso honestly... its because of his inability to really genuinely step away from any self imposed duty that he has. if he has obligation, even if he REALLY doesnt want to do it, he will do his best to see it through to the end. sometimes these obligations are self made tho and thats where some issues crop up bc people are like u dont have to . and hes like I HAVE TO. but i will complain the entire time bc god i wanna just chill instead.

Daggers: the belief that one day she will figure everything out, things will make sense to her, she will get the love that she deserves, and she will be happy... even if she does get this though theres not much holding her back from not believing it and keeping going... shes a bit selfish but thats ok thats fun hehe. I think one day she will get it and be satisfied and then what will keep her going is ... keeping that up. u kno? gotta hold up appearances

Hook: justice. genuinely and truely, they want justice for the world and for themselves and for their brother. previously before the pcs got their brother back to them it would have been u kno, getting their brother back but now theyre like ok revenge time. i want everyone who made me suffer to suffer now thanks . they will not rest until the rebellion is successful and them and their brother can get nice little cottages out in the mountains and live happily :) no fear of anything ...

aaaand im putting the rest under the cut bc otherwise this post WILL be a million miles long

35. Do they consider themselves childish/mature for their age?

Swords: mature! she thinks shes more mature than most people she meets, the only exception would be any mentor figures in her life, like you know, henrietta, her grandmother, etc. but generally if she meets someone shes like i know more and am more mature than u. this especially applies to those in the rebellion

Wiz: he likes to think mature, or even just like on equal footing w people around his age, but he knows hes childish for his age :( really the only person he really genuinely thinks hes more mature than is his brother and even with him hes like 'ok but thats mainly bc i literally am older than him'. wiz has issues ✌

Daggers: mature, she puts on a front that seems more childish and naive but inside shes like all you bitches are so childish i care about REAL iissues. like . how i am soso mentally ill and have issues. and the govt and the world. sooooo im more mature.

Hook: TBH, hook doesnt rly think theyre childish OR mature for their age, they find themself on pretty equal footing no matter who theyre talking to bc theyre like pretty casual and prefer to like have equality between ppl theyre talking to and like dont care at all about filling in roles, like being more of a mentor figure OR being someone who is menteed you know? but theyre mature for their age, especially when they were a child, growing up on the streets with no parents and a little brother will do that to you ✌

39. What does your character believe their party lacks?

Swords: For the rebellion well . its a little obvious, theres no real direction to it still!! most of the other things the rebellion lacks though has recently been fulfilled since the pcs came back and picked out a lil hq location :) theres also a part of her that thinks the rebellion without henrietta will always be lacking something and all of that but shes !! working on it !!

Wiz: also thinks the rebellion lacks a clear direction, and that it lacks people who genuinely care about the cause and arent just doing this to puppet the old rebellions corpse to get it to success. hes WORKING on the direction part. being the leader and all . but its still hard since there is no real unified vision of the rebellion anymore, just anecdotes of the old one. Wiz would rather the rebellion either not exist at all or that people forgot about the old one. too bad its almost a requirement that the old rebellion be brought up and people from it to join for the success of this one <3

Daggers: being that she hasnt ever had experience being in a group like this before, idk if she has much of a thought on what it lacks! maybe people that focus more on details instead of the big picture, which is how it feels rn, everthings kind of vague and depersonalized, which worked back when it was small but now its getting bigger and people might get lost in all of this bustle... u kno?

Hook: basically a conglomerate opinion of all the previous ones. Hook honestly doesnt care too too much about the rebellion as a whole, and mainly just hopes that it never lacks the ability for the to have some independence, that they can do what they need to do and nobody will hold them back.

44. How do they hold onto people?

this is such an interesting q... many ways to interpret this...

Swords: GUILT!!!! swords is pretty openly a manipulator honestly when it comes down to this. its not even conscious honestly. she doesnt want people to ever leave her bc it makes her feel a bit worthless and stuff so she just tries her best to make sure people stick around :) in whatever ways she possibly can ! this all only really happens if she can tell people are like distancing themselves from her tho btw.. otherwise its business as usual!

Wiz: honestly. by being dependable. wiz only really knows how to exist when its deferential to another person. its partially why him being the leader has sucked but this also means that should he be shoved, he will get stuff done. and he knows that people need people who can get stuff done, thus making him kinda indispensable. kinda manipulative but ummmm u guyys dont even know he . is . a little bit lmao . (btw this is also why he was a terrible brother <3) (also regardless of whether wiz likes someone or not, he tends to try and hold onto them... kinda cringe)

Daggers: by trying her best to be loveable. trying to mold herself into someone desireable that people will see as attractive and worthy of their time and attention. this model is mostly based on her sister who managed to hold the entirety of her family but its . not successful at all <3 but that doesnt mean she wont stop trying to be her inauthentic self until her identity is purely based on what she thinks others enjoy. though, if she doesnt like someone, she wont try too hard to hold onto them

Hook: by taking care of them, chilling with them... being a good friend :) you can usually tell if they like you because theyll chill around u like a cat... and also like bring u thngs... again like a cat... theyre not too dissimilar from how wiz does but in a less like... deferential way and more of a parental way almost? it can ofc become deferential tho, and in most times if hook wants someone to like them, they will become very sort of... not subserviant but like... very obviously only doing things that will make them liked by that person and not caring much about themself? more selfless than selfish ! much like daggers, but going even farther, if hook knows someone doesnt like.. want to be held onto then they will let them go...

54. What is something they currently look forward to? What is something they dread?

Swords: shes looking forward to having the PCs back around and also getting this rebellion together!! shes excite to see where everything gets taken and their future victories, of course that also comes with the absolute dread of failure, of death and destruction happening to those she loves... so :)

Wiz: YOU GUYS ALREADY KNOW WHAT HES DREADING!! but for people who arent in this dnd game, wiz is soooososoo anxious abt his recent sudden multiclass into cleric bc he hates divinity and gods and everything and is like if i got possessed by a god its all over . and right when i was actually trying to be a good leader too 😭 I will say tho.. he is looking forward to the rebellion... maybe working out and having more people around... new people to meet and chat with... the pcs to be around and be silly... also he missed daggers <3

Daggers: She is looking forward to having more people around that she is much more familiar with, being able to chill after a long hard two missions in a row, and to be able to like... process everything in a more healthy way and like... u kno, having a support system instead of people she barely knows and who she knows dont like her very much... i think she is dreading a little bit like... actually moving past this all though? like who is she going to be when she actually moves past her grief and her fear of death and feeling like genuinely yes she is not a bad person for having accidentally killed someone... who will she be... shes a bit unsure and a bit nervous of that...

Hook: hook WAS looking forward to seeing their brother finally for the first time in like 10 years but then it happened and it was great!!! so now theyre looking forward to the past... looking forward to the rebellion being put together like it was before and being able to help people, fix things, be useful and not only to their siblings or to their friends! theres more people around, more things to do, more stuff to just get into... its gonna be fun ^-^ but i do think they dread losing people, probably are going to be very on people about like .. fortifying the hq so theres no chance they could lose their brother or anyone they care about ever again !!

62. Who does your character think is the most put together in the party?

Swords: in the rebellion? herself. She thinks shes mature, prepared, experienced, etc etc... the only thing is that if shes ever like... prodded on this or have to actually SHOW that shes most put together she will crumple <3 in the PCs party..... rushi probably! reminds her of her grandmother who was a big mentor figure in her life and so shes like :) she has it all under control :)

Wiz: in the rebellion........ probably nobody. in the pcs party ALSO NOBODY 🥳 he 1- has trust issues and 2- is very cynical and pessmistic, so not only is he like nah i dont think anyone really has it together, but he doesnt TRUST that anyone does. If you stretch . maybe at most he thinks jacques and talfryn both have something, but even then wiz is like theyre YOUNG theyll make dumb mistakes that show they have NOTHING together... but yea

Daggers: in the rebellion, wiz! shes very much like... hes the leader... ofc he has everything toegther... plus u know, hes a paternal figure to her and that makes her VERY biased in who she thinks to go to for anything or even just like... thinking about whos got it together. in the PCs party, probably talfryn. he reminds her of her older brother whos probably one of the most successful people in her family, plus hes got some like very good self assurance that really show her that hes got things under control.

Hook: in the rebellion....... themselves. and in the PCs party, nobody probably? I think that much like wiz, hook is a bit cynical, plus although they dont really show it, they are a bit self assured, they know what they can deal with, what they can do, and dont really trust that other people know that of themselves and that theyll easily overextend themselves u kno?

64. What is one thing they want each party member to know?

Swords: in the rebellion.... 🤔 probably she desperately wants daggers to know that she doesnt hate her, that she doesnt have any ill will towards her and in fact, would like her and hang out w her if she wasnt soooo touchy about things. in the PCs.... probably wants all them to really know that she wants to b closer to them and like appreciates them... i think swords really doesnt think people GET how much she apprecates them... or like enjoys their presence...

Wiz: in the rebellion..... you know what, i think both in the rebellion and in the PCs he wants people to know that he . is so sorry for being a lil shit <3 he doesnt really like ... talk in an earnest way so really any earnest feelings he has he would like people to know about and i think right now hes just like man. this could have been happening way earlier if i just had chilled out. like he doesnt recognize his mistakes in the moment and will often defend them but god forbid he actually apologize after the fact, he wishes he could just BEAM the knowledge of these apologies and everything into peoples minds.

Daggers: I think for both the pcs and the rebellion she probably would want them to know about her... to understand her in some kind of way so theres no real confusion when talking to them, and so maybe theyll be able to fully point her in the right direction when it comes to advice and stuff, bc she feels like ppl dont really truely KNOW her... or know HER u kno?

Hook: honestly . hook wishes that people would just . know how to communicate with them. im sure its probably really frustrating dealing with the PCs bc they have to do a less direct way of talking to them (through typing on their phone) bc like while theyre fast at typing they find it easier to just SIGN. and as far as the rebellion, they want wiz and probably swords too to know that theyre not like . going anywhere... even tho they have their brother back, theyre still there for wiz and swords... still able to be friends with them u kno?

69. Journey or Destination?

Swords: Journey! a very big believer in the whole dont cry because its over smile because it happened person, this isnt to say that she DOESNT cry because its over of course, she gets sad about the idea of the rebellion ending but is excited about it being successful! but ... of course she still does enjoy the thrills of victories and having people to support her through losses... etc... so she likes the journey more ^-^

Wiz: Journey, wiz dreads the destination always. the journey is more fun and everything is somewhat more stable somehow, but the destination is when everything ends, everyone goes home and the show is over.

Daggers: Destination, she values results more than what gets those results. plus most of the time she just finds journeys to be tedious and wants for any suffering to be over with immediately!! shes sick of it!! but also shes addicted to it so <3 even tho she desires the destination she may never get it bc she will always look for the destination u kno?

Hook: Destination, they just want to chill . please . plus journeys are dangerous and people do bad things and they do bad things and its just BAD. can we get to the part where we're all drinking margaritas with little umbrellas on the beach now? pls?

#FINALLY GOT THIS DONE . <3 #SORRY especially to the anon . i will answer ur qs soon... but for now.... zee gets a little treat 💖#rev lore #dnd comeback #DW . I WILL WRITE A BIG POST ABT THIS GAME SOON #probably right after i solve some silt verses cyphers #ignore any spelling mistakes also pls

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laverrez · 11 months

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thinking about people ignoring how semblance and personality are connected in their creation of rwby ocs makes me too tilted

like thats one of the good things about it and there are Not Many Good Things so why throw away the ones that exist

i painstaked with my ocs

reed had an antigrav semblance with the tendency to get away from her and lead to overuse/aura break because she rarely can feel the gravity (pun intended) of a situation until it's exploded beyond repair, and she constantly feels like she's apart from herself- weightless, experiencing life from another planet entirely, lightyears away

hickory had something similar to jack's compass; she could feel a pull in the direction of whatever she focused on that she wanted to find, but she needed to know exactly what she was locating and she had to keep it at the forefront of her mind or she would get disoriented and lost. she's an incredibly driven, goal-oriented individual, and her career was astoundingly successful because she knew she wanted to be the best tracker the atlas military had to offer; even when she retired from that, her company became a staple for huntsmen clothing because she knew she wanted to keep alive a valuable dust-sewing skill her family had passed down for generations. her personal life, however, was constantly in disarray, because she didn't know what she wanted it to look like, and could never find her way.

mandy knew the elements/ingredients/parts that made up every item they ever touched, at the cost of temporary blindness upon each new thing that grazed their hands. they always knew what was needed to fix a situation, but they rarely knew how the parts needed to go together to *actually* fix anything, and they were often blind to the fact that just knowing what was needed and shoving it in anywhere couldnt solve their problems.

even belle, he didnt have a semblance as much as it was a faunus ability due to his legs, but then, it was still reflected in him- he could jump so high and run so fast, but he would take big leaps before he thought them through and just charge along until he hit a wall.

it just strikes me as so wild that people can so easily throw whatever semblance at whatever character and ignore that they dont match at all, for the sake of their rich smart flawless boy or their manic pixie dream girl. worse, even, the ones who would make a character that was a copypaste of the most recent tv show theyve started watching, and not even bother to try to make anything seem original or fit in a way that makes sense.

obviously creativity is to each their own, but it makes me incredibly baffled and sad when people pretend to care so much about a media and ignore the rules it set in place about those things, particularly when they're also ignoring all the genuine flaws the media has. i cannot wrap my head around choosing to value the worst parts and throwing away the good.

anyway, that's my rant. ask me about my ocs i suppose?

#this got away from me #just a little #rwde #as a treat #i just find it amazing (negative) because the most basic of semblance building rules are one of the rare ws that rwby has #so to cast them aside for your main character syndrome is beyond ick

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8bit-mau5 · 2 years

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5, 6, 18, and 20 for the mun questions!! :D

What is the most difficult thing about writing your current muse?

This one feels like a trick question cos i always have 5 - 7 muses active in my brain simultaneously and equally, it's just a matter of who I get to talk to first OTL I'll write a few for this one but dont think i can again for the next question 😭

Raizol - Difficult parsing out her behaviors and possible outcomes because she's such a spur of the moment kind of person at the WORST of times and can be unpredictable. Many different outcomes for one situation, many that all fit her as a character, and sometimes I gotta roll for it to see how to go about continuing something

Geniva - I wouldn't call it difficult per se, but it's a matter of not being able to control how people view and treat him as a character. He's good at pretending to be a face character with little going on and can be goofy and, as I'm told, "has himbo qualities". It's difficult to write a well meaning dude and see him get beat down and be boiled to one thing. EMOTIONALLY. it hurts me. i take psychic damage because he's my everything. hes my silly rabbit. i put him in situations and not a lot of ppl who enjoy him actually understand him (i trust him with such few people here in the community actually)

Xizaya - Man it's fucking hard to play someone so emotionally closed off ern how to Not be when my first instinct myself is to always be open and friendly and make connections and love so openly and unapologetically. It's a clash between the mun's and muse's personality! I scream bloody murder when i want him to do a certain way and just show he cares but know he can't or won't because it doesn't fit him as character. Like a fan screaming at the TV.

Himmel - It's difficult watching almost 10 years of writing into one character be taken as just One thing or just One way like how am i supposed to explain all the things he's gone through and how he's changed and grown alongside me as a person TEHRE IS SO MUCH TO HIMMEL. THERE IS SO MUCH TO HIM I DON'T TALK ABOUT. some of it is due to clumsy writing because I Have Been Writing Him Since I Was 14 Years Old. that shit is so hard. i have to beam vibes into your brain because I dont have the PATIENCE to explain it all more than once

What is your favorite thing about writing your current muse?

I'm gonna try so hard to make these shorter cos this is already ABSURDLY LONG. Like my me-

Raizol - SO FULL OF LOVE. SO GOOFYSILLY and can genuinely find the good in anything he sets his mind to. At the end of the day he's an optimist

Geniva - Despite everything he's a really hopeful person and is the most driven motherfucker in my entire roster. He goes after what he needs and wants and it ALWAYS gets done. He ALWAYS reaches the end of his goal, it's kinda inspiring tbh

Xizaya - His willingness to connect and keep trying even if he's really messy. Like, he's learning, he's doing okay. Things can get a little fucked up but he's gotten more patient and understanding with himself.

Himmel - Dramatic and loves loudly and refuses to water himself down for anyone. If you can't handle him then that's your loss. He's got a lot of self love actually and it makes me emotional

What makes for a great roleplay partner in your opinion

being able to bounce off each other is a given and so is being able to match my energy or at least SHOW enthusiasm, but I'm not here to talk abt the bare minimum. My fave RP partners are the people who accidentally slip into RP with me after talking back and forth abt certain scenarios like. Like writing comes so easy. My best RP partners are the people that accidentally slip into RP w/me because it shows you're just as into it as I am and ready for More TM. I like getting to bounce around the timeline, to talk in depth about the characters and what their dynamic does for one another, and I love when that person does the same @ me.

If you could tell your muse something, what would it be?

Raizol - You don't need to break yourself trying to reach redemption. Self flagellation won't get you anywhere and it certainly won't help you move on. You did what you can and it's okay.

Geniva - Let go. Look forward. You went through hell to get here so you should let yourself enjoy where you are NOW.

Xizaya - Your survived and that's enough. You can live now.

Himmel - You can't fix everyone. You can't fix people and people only change if THEY want to. So stop acting surprised when your projects give you papercuts.

– QUESTIONS FOR MUN

#asks #museofgrief #mun things #troll info #COS I PUT SO MUCH IN HERE I MIGHT AS WELL #Raizol Romeda #Geniva Yutiko #Xizaya Asetsu #Himmel Forlis #SIT TIGHT EVERYONE THIS ONES A DOOZY

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Alright hi it’s me I wanted to talk about analog horror! Specifically the Walten Files because it’s the only analog series that I’ve enjoyed somewhat.

The issue with analog is how old it gets so quick. I remember getting startled by the first few jumpscares in TWF and then it was just expected. (That’s not just an issue with analog, rather horror based in jumpscares overall)

Another issue is how easy it is to tell what stories are. Now, not everything needs to be cryptic. But mix up the puzzles! Pull out something different once and a while!

Now with the Walten Files I really want to talk about the episode Bunny Farm. I really want to talk about the character Sophie here. What was so off putting with this episode wasn’t anything close to the jumpscares.

It was the cluelessness with Sophie. I as the viewer new what and who she was recognizing. But she realized so fast. Too fast. I think the Walten Files would have much bigger of an impact on me if that hadn’t have happened. I think having Sophie almost completely confused throughout almost the entire episode would’ve made it so much better.

Not everything needs to be slowburn. Not everything needs to be nondependent of jumpscares. The issue with analog in these things is that it almost never is done correctly. With TWF, for me it’s easy to see these issues. The jumpscares aren’t very scary because they’re really predictable and almost always the same. And with what seemed like attempted slow burn, it didn’t work.

It’s like 4 in the morning sorry about my babbling nonsense.

hi there. im not sure who "me" is as i get a lot of anons is this the same person who sent the lina ask ?? im not sure. im also not entirely sure how to respond to this but ill treat it like a socratic seminar

ive already talked at length about my thoughts on the walten files here but im glad to elaborate more on how i feel abt bunny farm

i feel like the story of the walten files was really rushed and unplanned and tried to do too many things at once. i think it shoulve asked itself what it wanted to say and what it wanted to make the audience feel. bunny farm specifically feels like the creator just wanted to make a petscop episode.

and this is where i wish the creator took more notes from petscop outside of simply the concept of a creepy game revealing your family secrets to you. like. petscop wanted to do something with that, it had things to say about it, and its ultimate goal was not horror, i feel. it had things to say about humanity. the walten files in my mind is pretty focused on the horror element. its main draw is its scary faces .....

i feel no connection with sophie, no sense of who she is as a person - we were never given time to sit with her and experience her charisma or grow attached to her. thus, i honestly dont care about her or her dismissive girlfriend or the mystery pills she took that magically gave her amnesia. the game lacks cohesiveness or subtlety. the episode wants so bad to tell you about the scary horrible things that happened that it rushes through any sense of buildup or development just to show you the scary face and sophie remembering things.

i dont want to imply everything has to take after petscop or treat it as this pinnacle of good storytelling, but im sorry if you make something like bunny farm im just gonna be thinking man i wish i was watching petscop right now.

you mention analog horror rarely doing things correctly, i think a better way to put it is its rarely done well. the entire genre is built upon extremely specific conventions and thus theres very little wiggle room to explore new ideas. or at least, barely anyone has explored new ideas. it feels like a template at this point. and i think thats partially driven by the nature of the internet: people witness something thats successful and seems easy to make, they make it, it blows up, cue the cycle. it makes the works extremely predictable and they lose their potency rapidly. it becomes grating.

#sorry if this is a strange response im not entirely sure what people want from me when they send me stuff like this

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schrodingersvibecheck · 4 years

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#i...... didnt like pkmn swrd #theres.... no story that youre actually involved in #i dont care about completing my dex.. i care about a STORY...#litcherally beat the main story in ~25 hr i dont understand how some people have like >60 hr #and that included me fucking around in the wild areas for like 6 hours total #like... the games i care about the most are story and character driven... this was neither #i really couldnt care less about catching every single pokemon. i dont like constant battling because it makes me tired and bored #all the battles are the same #jendkdne this is why oras and hgss are my favourites in main series games.... theres like actual in depth story and you rly feel immersed #i care SO MUCH about what happens to johto and hoenn bc of them #galar? i dont care. get crushed by dymaxed pkmn for all i care.#we dont even have an organisation with grunts to fight lmao #like. team yell barely counts bc they just love marnie and want her to do well which is valid #piers just loves his sister so hes not evil #the chairman and oleanna feel like recycled lusamine but with some rationale and less intrigue #i dont care about rose or oleanna at all #villains i do think are interesting? gladion. teams galactic plasma aqua and magma #team rocket is valid bc they just want to be evil lmao #team skull is valid bc theyre just hooligans + found family #ugh i just want to actually feel involved in the big picture shit that happens entirely off camera in swsh #like.. 2 battles doesnt cut it #like. i still had fun bc its pkmn and i love pkmn but as far as games go it was definitely rly disappointing ://#im regretting buying the expansion bundle tbh #eva.txt

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nell-pointer · 2 years

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DSMP CLASSPECTS CUZ ITS 4/13 BABYYYY!!!!

I’ve seen some other people do these, and I thought I’d try my hand at it because sorting characters into things is like the most fun thing to do ever. I didn’t do all the characters, just a few of the ones I felt the most confident about (and some rapid fire ones at the end). This probably won’t make any sense if you don’t already understand classpects but I dont care so without further ado:

Dream - Knight of Heart: First off, Dream doesn’t get to have that many splinters and not have a heart aspects, secondly, I honestly feel like heart just fits him really well. Heart players are all about passion and the soul. Combine that with Knights who are notorious for hiding their true feelings behind a façade (or a mask lol) You get someone who pretends to be all logical, but is in reality ruled almost entirely by emotions.

Technoblade - Prince of Blood: There is no universe in which I don’t give Techno a blood aspect, while you could make an argument that breath would suit him much better, it just wouldn’t be right.

So I went for a middle ground. The Prince class always mirror their opposing aspect. (that's why Dirk was logical despite being a heart player, Eridan was nihilistic despite being a hope player, and Kurloz was calm despite being a rage player) So It would make sense that Techno, as a Prince of Blood would share so many characteristics with the Breath aspect. Plus deep down its pretty obvious that Techno does long for a sense of community and friendship, even if he sometimes has a pretty bad way of going about it.

Also, Prince of Blood literally translates to “One who destroys Unity” so.....

Tommy - Knight of Blood: Tommy may look like a Dave Strider kinnie, but hes got way more in common with Karkat. I don’t think this requires more explanation, but i’m a wordy bitch so I’m gonna keep going.

Blood has to do with bonds, attachments, unity, things like that, all of which are pretty much the core of Tommys whole character. And I’m going with knight because he puts up a front of an annoying raging child, but past the surface its clear he’s cares deeply for those around him.

Tubbo - Rouge of Void: Tubbo is a character study in avoidance. Time and time again we see him sweep very important things under the rug, usually to make things easier or more comfortable for others. He lets things go because he wants to be the bigger person, because he wants to be a forgiving person. This is token rouge behavior, using your own aspect to help others, he will forgive pretty major things, or avoid talking about major things because he doesn’t want to cause conflict. But at the end of the day, all rouges struggle with giving too much of themselves away, and will almost always reach their breaking point. Also, major Roxy Lalonde vibes what can I say.

Quackity - Witch of Mind: While I could go for the easy clap and say ‘oh, here's this morally ambiguous character that also happens to dabble in some occasional manipulation, lets go with thief’.... but I’m not that lazy. Plus I actually really like witch for him, witches are confident in their aspect and are always trying to test the bounds of it, and I think that works very well with Quackitys ambitious nature. He’s not evil, he’s cutthroat.

And as for his aspect... again I could have gone the easy route and given him light because of the obvious luck motif, but in my opinion, the luck motif is really ALL he’s got in common with light. Other than that, nothing else about him stands out to me as belonging to a light player. Mind on the other hand, I think works very well. Mind players are logically driven and great critical thinkers. They are usually several steps ahead, and if that's not Quackity I don’t know what is.

Here are some rapid fire ones that I’m less sure of either because I don’t care that much or I know next to nothing about their lore I just get ‘vibes’ from them

Sapnap: Knight for sure, not totally sure of what maybe life tho

Karl: Bard of Light

Philza: Mage (or maybe sylph) of Doom (or maybe life)

Wilbur: Mage of Time

Fundy: Seer of something, not sure of what

Bad: Definite Rage player, even with my limited knowledge of the Eggpire I’m pretty confidant on this one. Class I got nothing for tho.

Hannah: Witch of Life

Ranboo: Obvious Void player

Michael (not the pig): Seer of Doom seems a little too obvious but its all I got

George: I’m leaning towards Heir, maybe of Void

Aimsey: First clock says Sylph of Doom, could potentially change based on what he does moving forward.

Puffy: Also probably a Sylph (damn meddlers)

Boomer: Based on the like two things I know about them, I’m thinking Rouge of Light

Slime: Heir of Heart

#dsmp #dream smp #dsmp classpects #c!dream #dream #c!technoblade #technoblade #c!tommy #tommyinnit #c!tubbo #tubbo #c!quackity #quackity #I'm only tagging the ones I had a lot to say about #I have not taken an english class in two years and it shows #I will probably elaborate more on these later #okay that enough

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