#Sf rambles

[samadhifired]

If Erlang Shen turns out to be a full-blown antagonist, imagine how hilarious his dynamics with Nezha and PIF will be.

Because then we will have this Celestial Elite Warrior trio who create a perfect scale of:

#lmk #lego monkie kid #monkie kid #lmk princess iron fan #lmk erlang #lmk nezha #Poor Nezha has to be the peace keeper #They probably had that snarky #always competing against each other sibling dynamic #SF rambles

[d4isywhims]

landgraab household makeover wip

i finally reached act 3 of bg3 and LET ME TELL YOU THE SHIT THIS GAME HAS PUT ME THROUGH HAS ME IN SHAMBLES (in a good way?????) anywaYY, i decided to take a little break im probably lying to myself tbh from bg3 to get back to my sims grind lmao

currently messing around with the landgraab household!

#gem rambles #sf progress #fun stuff #sims 4 #the sims 4 #ts4

[plusvanity]

The aesthetic from Sally Face gets me so damn nostalgic for both my happiest and darkest childhood times.

There's this bittersweet feeling of poverty, neglect and misery everywhere around you, the dilapidated buildings that still stand tall and inhabited (regardless of the Soviet Union downfall), the overgrowth of weeds in the backyard and the everyday school bullying. 

So glad I found this THING <3

#my ramblings #sally face #sal fisher #sal sf #sally face fandom

[spacenintendogs]

do you think fox mccloud & wolf o'donnell have a lot of overlapping music taste/preferences & it pisses them off?

#star fox #fox mccloud #wolf o'donnell #rose rambles #sf shenanigans #i just think it'd be fucking hilarious

[laugtherhyena]

So, what's up with Udon comics Karin?

Recently i got a hold of physical copies of the Sakura ganbaru manga and after reading through the whole thing i decided to organize this character analysis of sorts where I'll be comparing this awful iteration of the character to her versions from the game's canon and the manga where she originated from in order to highlight where the Udon comics completely missed the mark when it came to portraying her.

First off, who is Karin?

She's the sole heir to the Kanzuki Zaibatsu which is one of the biggest and wealthiest business organizations in the Street fighter world. She has an incredibly strict father and has been trained pretty much since birth to become what he considers a worthy heir, being set to live by their motto that's something along the lines of “In all things be victorious”.

Karin is very obviously SF’s version of the ojou girl character trope, she's filthy rich, snobbish, mean and has a condescending attitude from her mannerisms to her laughs. These are traits present in all of her iterations, however, there's one key element about Karin that completely flew over the heads of the udon comic writers;

Karin is not spoiled, she is proud.

At age 15 this girl was on her way to becoming the leader of one of the biggest business conglomerates of the world while also being proficient in several different fighting styles, remaining undefeated for god knows how long. Karin is good at what she does and she knows it, she's proud of her accomplishments and that's exactly why she acts the way she does.

Her attitude was never solely out of her fortune and status, it always came off as being mostly out of her own merit.

Meanwhile, in the Udon comics Karin is portrayed as a huge spoiled brat. They essentially removed every aspect that made her a rounded likable character and amplified all of her worst traits, a complete disservice to a character that in her proper characterization feels almost like a spin on the standard ojou girl archetype.

As research for this post I tried to find the first time she appeared in the story and as far as I'm aware that was on Street fighter issue 8 in a small backup/extra comic. In it, her initial fight with Sakura has already happened and Karin is after her for a rematch, Sakura is running late for school but Karin corners her so they can have their match, she beats her up fairly quickly and then runs off.

While appearing at the most inconvenient times is not out of character for her (Example: in Sakura ganbaru she breaks into Sakura's house at night by smashing her window solely so she could invite her to this fighting event she'll be hosting) one thing that stood out to me is how Karin talks about their previous fight.

She says that she only lost because of a fluke in their previous fight, implying that she would have won otherwise. And this is something that gets shown again and again in her later, major, appearances in the series; Street fighter legends Sakura (top left) and Street fighter Sakura vs Karin (Bottom left + right)

Karin seems to genuinely believe that there's no way she could lose to Sakura, and if she did, then there must have been some kind of casualty during the match that prevented her from whining, foul play involved on Sakura's part or she straight up says that the fight in which she was bested by her doesn't count for whatever reason.

This inability to accept defeat not only paints her as a whiny sore loser, but shows a clear misunderstanding on the writer’s part on the reason why Karin goes after Sakura.

She's not after this rematch because she refuses to accept that Sakura could win or even because she hates this girl, she just wants to prove herself as the better fighter to uphold her family's motto of being the winner at everything. In both the game's canon and in Sakura ganbaru she accepted that she was bested and worked towards growing stronger so that she could defeat Sakura in a rematch.

That's literally it, but for some reason the Udon comic writers seem to think that Karin has some sort of obsessive vendetta against Sakura and just can't stand her. In Street fighter legends Sakura she breaks a tv just because she saw Sakura being praised on it and in the prologue of this short series she's seen destroying several punching bags with Sakura's picture on it and makes one of her employees dress as her for them to fight.

(I'm sure there's a version of these with more dialogue but i couldn't find it in english :[)

This is downright atrocious because Karin NEVER hated Sakura. Her infatuation for her (because you really can't call it an obsession) came from a place of genuine admiration for her skills.

In Sakura ganbaru she orders her butler to give her a full resume about Sakura's life just because she saw her fighting from afar and was impressed by her skills, even calling her a “special commoner” when the butler asks her why she's so set on wanting to fight a girl like her. And in Alpha 3, Karin straight up tells Sakura that she admires her.

Hell, even after winning against Sakura in a match, Karin proclaims her as the better fighter. A level of humility that's almost nonexistent in her Udon comics counterpart.

Because yes, Karin can be nice. We see this first-hand in Alpha 3 where after losing to R.Mika in a fight she tells her hasn't studied enough about pro-wrestling (admitting that she had underestimated her fighting style) and even offers to sponsor Mika's wrestling career.

Later on in Street fighter V she pays Birdie to be her bodyguard and pretty much lets him lay around her mansion doing nothing all day after finding out Shadaloo was after him.

Something similar to these acts of kindness on her part happens in Legends Sakura, where she lets her employee keep the trophy of the hot dog eating competition they were in. But the thing is; they have made Karin such a bitch in these comics that this act, which would be in character for her game counterpart, feels out of character in this because she's just so mean and victory focused all the time.

And speaking of victories, another thing this characterization of her gets wrong is her approach to them. Udon comics Karin will go above and beyond in order to achieve a victory, it doesn't matter if it's unfair for her opponent, all that she cares about is if she scores that win.

In Legends Sakura she challenges Karin to a hot dog eating competition since she wasn't feeling like fighting her physically, Karin cheats in it by shoving the food down her employee’s throat under the table, when Sakura and her friends out her as a cheater she quickly changed the challenge into a fighting match even tho Sakura has eaten like 30 hot dogs by now and is in no condition to fight her.

And in Sakura vs Karin, where the two are competing in a game tournament, Karin buys the company that made the game and adds herself as a character on it. Something Sakura was previously not aware of and as such had no chance of knowing how to play well against the new character.

This is wild to me because it's quite literally the exact opposite of how Karin acts in her other iterations. She strives for a fair fight because otherwise her subsequent victory on it will be meaningless, after all, there's no merit in winning against someone when you've got an unfair advantage over them.

Even when she had the perfect opportunity to give herself an advantage, manga Karin still strived to keep things fair. After her initial loss against Sakura, she organizes a tournament around the district that's essentially a battle royale with several fighters of the region. She made this whole event with the sole purpose of challenging Sakura by the end of it since she expected her to defeat all the other opponents.

As the organizer, she could absolutely have abstained from joining the tournament herself and stand there high and mighty as the final challenge for the whole thing, but not only did she actively participate on the tournament, Karin strived to defeat more people than Sakura because she saw that as a way to redeem herself after losing to her a few days back.

She is so set in winning this tournament that she refused to even stop for a moment and get her injuries treated.

Cheating legitimately feels like something Karin would frown upon so to see her doing it more than once in the Udon comics feels like the pinnacle of character assassination.

Another thing that stood out to me is that even after being outed as a cheater during that hot dog eating competition, that not only had an immense live audience but was also being televised, Karin faces absolutely no repressions for it. Meanwhile in the manga Karin's father makes her undergo a series of trials in which she fights an eagle while balancing on a tightrope over a ravine, a bear in a waterfall, and a lion otherwise he would basically disown her.

All of this because she lost twice, first to Sakura and later to Ken during the tournament.

And speaking of Sakura, they messed up her and Karin's relationship so badly in the Udon comics that it's only when the two of them are adults that they become friends. Meanwhile, in both Alpha 3 and Sakura ganbaru volume 1 they're left on a good note with each other right after their stories wrap up and implied to have become friends in the following entries of the series.

In Street fighter IV this is done via Sakura's win quotes and in volume 2 by Sakura sending Karin a souvenir from her travels.

By the time we see them as adults in Street fighter V we are shown that yes, they are friends! And seemingly have been for quite a while now.

This is honestly kinda sad to me because we learn first hand that Udon comics Karin had no friends growing up and it seems like this lack of positive figures in her life, Sakura specially, stunted her growth as a person since it's also only when she's an adult that she comes to the realization that fighting it's not about winning or losing, but the moment of the battle, and that some defeats are more valuable than victories since it's from our failures that we can learn to grown stronger.

Something that both the manga and game  versions of Karin discovered much sooner, truly showcasing how Udon’s version of her is always 5 steps behind the others.

#can you tell this is my favorite Sf character can you tell- #i had to learn how to mess with Tumblr on desktop just to add all the images to this #street fighter #Karin Kanzuki #hyena ramblings

[raspberrysmoon]

thinking about joey richter right now

theres something about the way he plays his characters. im not sure what it is. it might be how drastically his voice changes from role to role, or how costuming affects his figure, i dont know. but none of joeys characters look like each other. not really

jon's characters are always jon. paul, richie, trevor, daniel, gary, boy jerry? they look just different enough to seem connected, but not the same. maybe its because his mannerisms barely change- paul and richie both fiddle with their hands while theyre just standing, doing nothing else. maybe its because he just... acts them similarly. but even gary and paul, they feel like the same person. the only exception to this is wiggly, which comes down to vocals.

all of coreys characters are the same way. frank pricely and solomon lauter blend together in my brain like paul and richie do. angela too- despite her lack of characters. lex and grace are angela in a way that none of joeys characters really encompass.

pete and ted, despite being played by the same man, and being brothers, are so strangely distinct from each other. then, wilbur cross, ethan green, thrash and dan reynolds look nothing like the spankoffskis or eachother. all the way back to ron weasley and owen carvour. they dont look like joey. they sound like him, usually, owen and wilbur especially, but they dont really ever look like joey. i had no idea that dan reynolds or ron weasley were even played by him until i was told.

not sure what it is that makes him special. none of his roles- none of them- look like each other. even lauren, kim and curt, who all have a similar phenomenon. emma perkins, brooke and jingle (her elf from black friday) come to mind for lauren, while officer bailey, agent curt mega (of course) and mark chasity come to mind for curt. they just seem like the actor theyre being played by, and they seem like each other.

but joeys characters dont blend together like that in my mind.

#could 100% expand on this tbh #its almost like same face syndome in art #I FORGOT ABOUT BOY JERRY #fixed #like i feel like a lot of them have half sfs #bryce has it sometimes #rose and brenda look way similar #but her cop character doesnt at ALL #only exeption to corey is pokey #whcih again comes down to vocals 100% #anyway idk what this means tbh #my brain works funny sometimes #raspy rambles #starkid #hatchetfield #joey richter #npmd #tgwdlm

[nonsensical-pixels]

my sfs and mediafire folders are such a mess that even thinking of adding new uploads to them makes me wince, but i'd rather crawl through the redlit ventilation system that is simpe and churn out dozens of new conversions than spend more than a minute trying to organise them 😍

#ky's cc rambles #sims 2 #sorry archivists xx #i have stuff on there that i have no recollection of ever uploading #wtf is N002 doing in my mediafire folder #why do i have so many objects.packages #why do i have a Custom Hairs and Converted Hairs folder on sfs #why do i have duplicates of everything #we will know at the end of time

[solargrove]

have slowly been rebuilding my mods + cc and i am almost at the point where im ready to start a new legacy challenge so expect that at some time really soon :3

#ren ramblings #WOOOOOO #cc downloading is so time consuming #esp when sfs was down omg #ANYWAY #im planning already in my head about this legacy hehe #and she WILL be the one i see through! 🤓☝️ #have some faith in me pls

[anadorablekiwi]

A link dragon drink thingy, hummus, fried pita bread, and a carne asada burrito 😋🥰

#kiwi rambles #yall might see a lot today actually #in SF lol

[satansfavoritestripper]

Googling "what to do with my life" at 3:43am: This is how people get lured into cults

#at least it'll be different #text post #ignore my rambling #sfs

[the-lady-general]

Watching Dana Terrace stare Disney directly in the eyes while knocking down every heirloom plate and crystal vase on her way out is so much fun. GET EM DANA!

#the owl house #i see camila likes star trek #NOT the disney sf franchise #would have been more fun getting a full season with weekly episodes BUT HEY #THE GIANT MIDDLE FINGER IN THE INTRO ALONE WAS WORTH IT #the lady general rambles

[samadhifired]

Since Ao Lie was the second Pilgrim to join the Journey... Just imagine how badly Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing must have freaked out when they learned that

This silly little guy

Had an angry dragon mode

#lego monkie kid #monkie kid #lmk #ao lie #sf rambles

[bluegarners]

hey guys if you haven’t you should read persephone’s in hell. like rn. rn!!!!!

#it’s the better version of solar flares #okay well no i won’t elevate their fic by downing mine- sf is a lot of introspection and that’s a little different #than persephones in hell’s massive and beautiful exposé that has torn me asunder #GO READ IT like my heart literally races so hard and the descriptions are GORGEOUS #i would love to be able to write a mix of action and introspection like mysterycitrus does #however im too predisposed to long rambles #it’s also crazy bc there’s a scene in there that ive literally imagined before and written in a wip #and i felt so vindicated that someone else had also thought of a scene like that happening #it’s so good!!! literally can’t praise it enough

[plusvanity]

Sal Fisher be like 'Every fucking day that you're not playing your guitar is a wasted day'

Larry like the bassist that he is just rolls his eyes in the background

#my ramblings #my headcanons #sally face #sal fisher #sally face fandom #sf sally #sf larry #larry johnson #larry sally face

[ressioo]

hi hello same question

Depends on if you're talking about my canon following pibble or solar flare pebbles

Its a horrifying concept, seeing something thats apparently you but.. doesn't look the slightest bit similar to yourself, knowing that your dearest friend did this.

Hard not to imagine the same happening to him with his suns, yknow? Especially since he has the rot himself and they left off on an,, extremely sour note. To put it simply.

So yeah. Canon following would be fucking horrified

Now Solar Flare,,,

He's a bit special when it comes to this stuff. He never had the rot. Neither the chimney or bug maze pearl happened. This is purely because of his whole,, thing with Suns

He understands that this is a horrifying situation that someone shouldn't have to go through. HOWEVER. He is also an impulsive bastard that doesn't think about shit before saying things

And since this matter concerns Suns he might like. Highkey jump to victim blaming? And just say some messed up shit in general if he finds out about the rot thing. Especially if the other Pebbles is rightly angry or upset about this shit

'You wanted to ascend. Leave your Suns behind. This was entirely your fault. You wanted to leave them and they still chose to help you. You should be grateful'

Of course he'll realise after like, 5 seconds of actual thought that this isn't his situation and that the other Suns isn't his Suns. Not to be held in the same high regard

But yknow. Damage is already done and all that

#sorry for the ramble being able to talk about sf dynamics in any form is very mmm for me #in other news solar pibbles has very not normal opinions about his suns #this is him at the height of his not normal #like man. very not normal #reb ramble time

[laugtherhyena]

Collection of Karin looking like a little freak

#I'm having so much fun reading this again #street fighter #karin kanzuki #sf karin #hyena ramblings