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cannibalistic-cucumber · 2 months

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Okay so

For various reasons, Sonic Adventure (SA1) is among my dead favorite games. The two relevant to this rant are the characters and the gorgeous soundtrack (in fact, I might go on a tangent about individual songs at the end of this).

My favorite character in the game is E-102 “Gamma” (btw if you derail this post about Omega, you die), a robot built by Eggman, who runs on animal power, as Eggman’s robots usually do. However, Gamma contains a very special animal - it’s a surprise tool the will help us later. Five minutes into being born (and after training, ofc), he is forced to shoot his brother, E-101 “Beta”. Following this, he board’s Eggman’s ship (the Egg Carrier) and is tasked with catching the tailed frog. Upon collecting the frog, he is transported to the past, where he experiences childlike wonder at the chao. Back on the Egg Carrier, the rest of his siblings are cast out because of their failure to get the frog. After that, Gamma is sent to execute a prisoner. On the way, he makes a wrong turn and ends up in the machining room, where he experiences eldritch horror at the sight of his brother being disassembled and reassembled. In the prison, he finds Amy Rose, who has a blue bird flying around with her looking for its parents. She convinces him not to kill her a la Mindy Animaniacs, and protects Sonic out on the deck of the ship, further confusing Gamma. He leaves the crashing ship, now convinced to “rescue” his disowned brothers. After successfully disposing of them, he is ambushed on the Egg Carrier by Beta Mk II, who feigns death in order to shoot Gamma in the back, and they both die as a result. Lo and behold, Gamma and Beta contained the parents of the bird. Reunited, they fly off into the sunset.

TLDR: Gamma is Eggman robot who experiences eldritch horror and compassion and forsakes his master as a result. He “rescues” his siblings before dying himself, and the animal inside him reunites with its family.

Now, a little more background before we get to the main point. SEGA Sound Team popped off for this game. Each character has a theme song that plays during their respective recaps and end credits (each one has an entire storyline with slight variations on who does what (it’s all happening at once)). Side note: I’m like 70% sure SA1 is the origin of Knuckles jazz. It should also be noted that I have a youtube playlist of songs on queue for downloading, and when I run out of ideas I scroll through the recommended additions section.

E-102’s theme is in my top three favorite songs from SA1. You’ll never guess what it’s called! Theme of E-102γ. And that’s my first talking point. I was reading the comments on one of the music videos, and one of them made a connection that his theme doesn’t get a proper name because he’s just another cog in the machine. Even Big the Cat has a greater role in the main story than him. And yet, doomed by the narrative as he is, he gets his own story. As another comment pointed out, each story has its own (literary) theme: Sonic is Adventure, Tails is Independence, Knuckles is Recollection (I’m kinda iffy on that one), Amy is Protection, Big is Friendship, and Gamma? Gamma is heart and soul. Compassion. Morality, something that shouldn’t be possible, and definitely isn’t comprehensible for a robot, especially one of Eggman’s creation.

As a side tangent here, I’ve been putting rescued in quotes when it comes to Gamma and his brothers, but I realized something between the time I started writing this and now. The animals that drop from the E-series robots are birds. They’re all his brothers, inside and out. I had always assumed that Gamma had meant rescue only in the liberation sense. I never realized that he meant it both ways. I just… I’m need a moment.

As a side side tangent, I think this is one of the biggest differences between E-100 ZERO and the rest. To my knowledge, he didn’t have any animals, much less another bird, and that was what led him to the brutish oafishness that we see displayed by him.

Back to the main points, I think that all of this is reflected in the song. It starts out with all of the synth, vague vocals, electro, etc. that would be expected from the theme of a robot, and then you’ve got… PIANO. Oh my god the piano. Piano Man has its harmonica, and this song has its piano. In the midst of the circuits, the wires, the computers, there’s life, a heartbeat, a soul. And with the soul comes that twinge of sadness. Sure he freed the animals, but to do so, he had to kill his brothers with his own two (?)(does the gun count?) hands. Due to this and the cumulation of everything else, hearing the song (or the variation of it) during his final cutscene hits and hits hard.

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THE REPRISE OF THE MAIN THEME PIANO AS HE DIES IN OBSCURITY. THE OTHER BIRDS ARE LIKELY THE ONLY ONES THAT END UP KNOWING ABOUT HIS DEATH

It’s okay I’m okay I’m so normal about this

Now that the main rant is over, it’s time for me to hoot about the other songs

Be Cool, Be Wild, Be Groovy …for Ice Cap

I get that it’s a snowboarding section, but still. THEY BOTHERED TO USE GUITAR IN A SNOW LEVEL. NAME ONE OTHER INSTANCE OF THAT THAT ISN’T LITTLE BIG PLANET’S THE WILDERNESS’S SITAR.

Limestone Cave …for Ice Cap

Ambience plain and simple. Good for falling asleep to

Snowy Mountain …for Ice Cap

Another ambience piece, this time with another guitar (no this doesn’t count for the challenge I posed above). Love the mix of electric and acoustic

Welcome To Station Square

“The train headed for the Mystic Ruins will be departing soon.” Came for the guitar, stayed for the trumpet.

Red Barrage Area …for Hot Shelter

SAX (shout outs to the rest of Hot Shelter’s music btw)

Militant Missionary … Boss Egg Walker & Egg Viper

Hopelessness, despair, DRAMA. Things may not have gone to plan, but Eggman is surely still the one in control.

And finally, shoutouts to Bad Taste Aquarium, Pleasure Castle, and Dilapidated Way for going full throttle right out the gate.

@green-mountain-goose @greetings-inferiors @cue-jay @kimu-dem

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lonestarbattleship · 2 years

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Fire Control: Directors, Part IV

"There was little change in the general mission of a fire control director between the world wars, though each nation made substantial strides to expand their director capability and improve function. The next great jump in director capability would come with the introduction of remote power control (RPC) in the 1930s, which automatically rotated turrets to match a director's movements, and of course, the addition of radar, to be covered later. However, because WWII is the most popular period of naval history for many, I thought it was important to include some additional images of directors that might look a little more familiar to you - namely the US Mk 38, for primary battery fire aboard US battleships, and the Mk 37, used for directing battleship and cruiser secondary batteries and the 5" battery of most war-production destroyers.

These units, featuring a fully-integrated rangefinder and positions for pointing, training, and cross-leveling, were laden with transmitters, calculators, periscopes, and other electrical equipment that made them vastly superior to the WWI and early '20s variations of the theme. Regardless of complication, their role was the same - find the target, and transmit data on the target to the plotting room for tracking (on a rangekeeper) and solution calculation, for direct transmission to the turrets.

A cutaway of the Mk 38 is shown, as well as a labeled diagram. A photo I took from the hatch in the forward Mk 38 director of USS North Carolina (BB-55) is shown 3rd (try to identify the instruments!). The aft Mk 38 and Mk 37 aboard Alabama (BB-60), also my photo, is 4th. USS Hughes (DD-410) shows off her Mk 37 on 29 July 1942 at Mare Island 5th. A cutaway of the unit is 6th."

For a MUCH more detailed post, subscribe via https://www.patreon.com/hazegreyhistory. Caption is exclusive to Haze Grey History Facebook page (link) and was shared with the permission of Evan Dwyer. Click this link to read more of his works. Photos are from USN literature and are public domain, except the two museum ship photographs which are copyright Haze Grey History.

#Fire Control #Fire Control Series #long post #Haze Grey History #battleship #warship #ship #boat #united states navy #us navy #navy #usn #dreadnought #u.s. navy #my post

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alphamamalioness · 6 months

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Hi Alpha Mama! I would like to announce to you it’s been officially over 2 years and a week from this day since I’ve adopted Asher and was Gifted Dancer! So I’m doing a nice big update on all my Alpha Tales to celebrate! 💛💛💛💛💛💛Asher(Beta G) and Pumkin have of course had their children! 2 Girls and a Boy, Valencia Lottia and Barrister! All coffee themed names lol! 💛Dancer(Paris) has grown so much and has joined a pack I like to call ‘The Herd’ and has made great friends with my Overtale Frisk(Spring) and Chara(Clover) he still enjoys visiting Asher a lot and the babies! 💛Poppy, Dahlia, and Peony have been enjoying the gardens and surprisingly have been attempting to hunt down a few things when they get to visit my shop- luckily they aren’t hunting bitties- I would much rather them have a grass hopper or a mouse then a bitty! Though I check them each time after I find they catch something- 💛Tsu’tey (Alpha OS) has settled and taken in Avi (Tilli NCG) as well as Api and Dutch(Dreamy’s Asgor) and their little ones as well as Chai(Milk Beta) Lullaby(Gentle Singing) Sleepy Wave(Great Stretch) and LazyTide(Great Bite) 💛 Ralu(Alpha P.) has settled in with Darling(BloodMoon) Amy(Omega OS) Atticus (Akita Boy) Miy(Dreamy) and Ati(Tilli) and a Skribbity has shown interest but I don’t know if they will attempt to join or just make friends- 💛 Valor (Alpha Sans) has actually taken great interest in LavaCake!(Helly) which I find interesting but he has also settled down with Mocha and Puddin (Omega P and S) so far he has been very gentle and careful with them which is really nice since I had a bit of worry since he’s more ‘rough’ if I remember correctly- 💛Rex(MK) has been wandering the territory with Prancer(Asriel) and both have been mostly enjoying their time together! 💛 Princess(BabyO OS) and Echidna are very happy! She keeps her mama nice and distracted from the others! Spressar(Gem) and Ribbon have been mostly doing their own things enjoying their own territories, though I feel like they could use a bit more interactive moments with the others- but I won’t push them- when their ready they will be ready- 💛 I am very pleased to say Piri (Pepper) as officially gotten with Malin!(Milkyway) they have been courting each other for a bit and it’s really freaking sweet!!! 💛 Tahitian has been wandering a bit as well but she mostly likes to stick to Aaron(Care Taker) who has been helping her get around a bit! She has been very open just like the many others with her! And has quickly started up friendships with many of Aaron’s little hitch hikers who like to follow us around or use us for a ride when lazy ^^’ that should be all of them-! It’s been an amazing time!

AlphaMama: Ohhhh that's really awesome! Thank you so much for giving me this update! I love to know how my bitties are doing around the world and their new lives!

💛Asher and Pumpkin are doing really amazing! The coffee touch is adorable! XD I'm glad Dancer have found their place among all of them! He is a brilliant one!

💛Poppy, Dahlia, and Peony are cute but can get really sneak ones when it comes to hunting, attention is really needed! I could recommend a little more variation of bugs for them to catch, like cockroaches for more fat nutrients, grubs are good too!

💛Tsu’tey (Alpha OS) can be a stubborn one sometimes, but has a really big heart~! ^w^ This is great!

💛That's a good size of the pack for Ralu(Alpha P.) to settle in, in general, they can get pretty violent and snap a lot, but with patience, they can become friendly enough to don't bite off any piece of the others ^w^ The Skribbity probably will come with a decision in a few days of searching around the packs.

💛Valor (Alpha Sans) can be really tiny but his bite is fierce for sure, but you can rest at ease, it's almost beyond a crime/taboo for an alpha (on my alphatale) to hurt omegas, and Alpha-Sans are really polite on this matter on regular cases.

💛💛It's so good to hear they are doing so well! >W< and of course, give time to the time and the things will be going on their own pace... You're truly amazing and very kind to give me this update!! I hope all things keep going for the best and more lovely days/nights to come for you and all the little ones! 💛💛

#alphamamalioness #ask #bittybones #alphatale #babybones #thanks!#jayedshifter

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batstickblog · 11 months

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6 archetypes of characters and themes for won’t want Mortal Kombat 1 Kombat Pack

Greeting fellow followers. Been awhile has done one of these. Isn’t rant or anything. It’s been a year since. I shared my thoughts on animation or a topic related to a certain issue related to a certain company sided with a party, one of the states against allowing discussion about social ideology like sexuality and gender identity. Ain’t talking, that’s my most popular post from last year and I want to try something different rather rely on old posts. Share my thoughts about the release announcement reveal trailer for Mortal Kombat 1 from NetherRealm Studios themselves. They put out that trailer and several outlets already released articles and breakdowns of what's well came from the next installment from the franchise. Already I've been a casual fighting game player. I Have played variations of fighting series across different franchises like Mortal Kombat, Darkstalkers, Tekken, Streets Fighters, Virtual Fighters, King of Fighters, Marvel vs. Capcom, Super Smash Brothers. Can list the rest of fighting’s games that I play. Would make a list of everything that’s played in my entire life. That’s for like any moment when I get around.

Already Mortal Kombat fan’s talk about guests characters. As pointed out, these are what they’re ever talking about. Besides the stories, characters and mechanics of the game, the team felt NRS was aware of this and teased fans to expect what guest characters will entertain mortal kombat like so many others, from God of War to Rambo. Between that is bunches of horror icons, comic books characters like Joker and Spawn and sci-fiction characters like Xenomorph, Yautja and T-800. Also with gaming outlets not confirmed. Speculating that Mortal Kombat 1 guest’s characters are Peacemaker, Homelander, Omni-Man and Conan. Everyone was excited about these and thak to the Elder Gods for that.

If the peaks are true, hope not. Don’t know there a majority of small MK fans that are not disappointed or not a fan of these early lists of guest fighters they are getting soon in Mortal Kombat 1. From their perspective they are excited for this because…What’s the point? Homelander and Omni-Man? They already have Evil Superman for Injustice, minus brutality in their shows. Well Injustice’s Superman is near lawful evil as Omni-Man and further than Mortal compass as Homelander (if you read the comic’s or watch the show’s to learn some horrible, terrifying and right-up mess actions that Homelander had done in both mediums).

Injustice Superman is good guys compared to Homelander. and they’re going to play the same type of fighters, again as Superman from previous games and they’d completely from the comic’s as strength and backstory, still going’s recycled or Tweak up there move sets make fans can’t tell difference a-little. Peacemaker, the show was popular (and don’t it either the show or the characters. Really fan of Peacemaker). Already a DC character appeared in Mortal Kombat and one Pleated completed about this because it’s Joker in the last Mortal Kombat. Why are they why the creative team wants to repeat the same theme for Kombat Pack.

For example, look at Mortal Kombat (2011) for download content of guest fighters Kratos (Greek Version) and Freddy Krueger. So Mortal Kombat 9 was a mix of both video games and horror representation. Mortal Kombat X was led into more horror with their kombat packs with guest characters like Leatherface, Alien, Predator and Jason (well action-horror with Alien and Predator. Both respected franchises, sequel and crossover are action orientated with horror elements mixed with. Jason X was part horror and part action/sci-fiction).

Mortal Kombat 11 has superior guest characters than X and 9. Spawn, Joker, Rambo, Terminator and RoboCop. Kombat Pack for Mortal Kombat 11 was a throwback of classic 80s action flicks and comic books. Now with Mortal Kombat 1. Kombat Pack already doesn't look that good, felt Kombat Packs are retaining the same idea from previously downloaded content packs. Ain’t felt different or has a theme to stand out from the rest of the Kombat Pack. It’s kind of like cooking your favorite kind of meat like beef, chicken or pork. Cooked anyway you like it. Would looks the same. In result it’s would end-up taste differently. That’s what Kombat Pack are each different flavors from a new Mortal Kombat game when released. Always a bit different from the previous entry in the title.

Return the Discussing on the Peacemaker. Let's be saved for when NetherRealm possibly make a next injustice after Mortal Kombat 1 (possibly when it would ever happen, sometime around mid-late 2020s). It’s great that Ed Boon and his team at NetherRealm Studios are listening to the community closely on most requests. At the same time boom and his studio really needed careful consideration when what third party they wanted included in Mortal Kombat. Ain’t saying is possible. Remembering has guests from other franchises ain’t easy. There needs to be a deal to be made and other parties are willing to allow any of these characters to make appearances outside their series, that's the company's own. Isn't an executive. Now has made a list of mixers of characters and type of themes for Mortal Kombat 1 Kombat Pack. That’s won’t or didn’t happen when revealed trailer for line-up of Kombat Pack after the game release afterwards.

Reused Old Guest Character

Not characters. Character. Has seen a lot of people and even articles that brought up many one character outside of the Mortal Kombat universe. Requested his return to Kratos from God of War. Everyone needs to be calm and reasonable. They want Kratos back, not as old rage-destructive, ruthless, violent, brutal Sparta from Greek saga. Norse Kratos from 2018's God of War and God of War Ragnarök. More wise and civilized, still a berserk fighter when either those closest to him are not in near danger.

Reason

These aren't third-party games. A guest isn’t a major character. They're one time appearances despite different versions of them. Don’t bring-up echo/clone characters or two were versions of characters like Regular Mario or Dr.Mario in Smash they’d be completely different. As much like Kratos. His right-up aside many established franchise characters like Master Chief, from the sixth generation era. Kratos or Norse Kratos is not personal for me. Rather want new guest fighter instead rehash old guest fighters from previous titles that came before it.

Horror Characters

Right of the bat. Is horror. Mortal Kombat has a well known reputation within the Horror community and embraced the genre as a whole. Freddy made his guest appearances in Mortal Kombat 2011, following with its 2015 sequel Mortal Kombat X with Jason and Leatherface. Since then fan’s requested other horror characters in the next Mortal Kombat. Seen a lot of popular suggestions for icon horror and slasher’s characters, even recently new ones from a wide variety of potential guest characters like Michael Myers, Pinhead, Ghostface, Pennywise, Chucky, Megan and plenty horr. Sadly alongside seemingly fan’s requests ever since Mortal Kombat X or 11? Is groovy chainsaw-wielding, boomstick-blasting wisecracking Ash Williams (believe less few years back around 2019-2020 that’s Bruce finished with character, and didn’t respire his in live-action or probably included video game anytime).

Reason

Michael Myers, Pinhead and…Pennywise would believe visuals could believe those three would translate into the world of Mortal Kombat. Ghostface or Chucky can’t imagine those two stand against…No go against one of fighters who are literally god or have element mythos abilities that can set you on fire or rip-out your soul from y’all, physical body. Horror has worn out the meriden in Mortal Kombat. With nine and tenth main installments in the Mortal Kombat or first two games of NetherRealm Trilogy. It’s preferable that NetherRealm Studios shouldn’t put any horror or slashers killers in Mortal Kombat 1 or any future games for a while if they’re chosen. Horror is everyone's favorite type of genre, myself included. In the game (isn’t Deaf by Daylight) as Mortal Kombat. Definitely not for a while.

Movie Licenses Characters

Mortal Kombat narratives felt when watching a movie. Fitting during the early development days way back to the first original Mortal Kombat. Originally the team at Midway was going to adapt Bloodsport in the game. All that’s changed thanks to the commercial success of Capcom's Street Fighter II: The World Warrior. Midway Games allows Boon and his team to create their own arcade fighting game, known as Mortal Kombat and cultural influence has had in the gaming industry for 30 years. Gone this strong after these years. Even though Jean-Claude Camille was announced in Mortal Kombat 1 as Kameo Fighters, with complete likeness. Since then with the last release Mortal Kombat 11 with 80s action characters from The Terminator, RoboCop to Rambo himself. Alongside the three appearances after Mortal Kombat 11. Quickly floated by fans, many movie characters wanted to be seen in Mortal Kombat games like John Wick, Mad Max, The Bride (Kill Bill), Riddick, Voldemort and “Sigh” Darth Vader. What’s any scenario is that Disney, Lucasfilms, NetherRealm Studios and Warner Bros. Games negotiated an agreement to make a deal allowing one of the Star Wars most iconic villains ever like Darth Vader in Mortal Kombat. No way unlikely will happen unlike pre-Disney Star Wars did with Soul Calibur IV.

Reason:

As much love as characters from my favorite movies engage in Kombat one versus one fight. Mortal Kombat should have laid-back these cinematic influences. Includes NetherRealm pouring how much money through getting these actors' approval allowing linkness to be used by the characters they portrayed from films to appear in the game. Maybe Mortal Kombat Fans would see John Wick pinned against someone like Scorpion, Liu Kang or Johnny Cage. Don’t get me wrong, it's flawless to see that with creativity the way badass fiction cinematic stars would do with their own fatalities. I am good that’s should leave out any more movie’s characters for Mortal Kombat 1. Three action stars are enough for Mortal Kombat 11. Let's find new gimmicks of guest characters for Kombat Pack. Please. Found better options for guest fighters including license out movie characters. Known studios would want either Neo or John Wick in one of their games. Even as Reeves fans I had to no. I love The Matrix and John Wick. Those are favorites of Keanu Reeves movies, strongly disagreeing on them being in Mortal Kombat.

Comic Books Characters

Homelander or Omni-Man, that's this leak to be rumored. Not if confirmed. Seems people on the Internet believe and accept any information is true or not, that’s their beliefs. That era is currently where we are now. Mortal Kombat 11 when first announced that Spawn and Joker were coming. I was massively excited for these. Mostly Spawn, in classes during the course of winter semester the trailer with that incredible song playing during gameplay’s footage Spawn fought Scorpion. If’s was during the 90s that’s a dream crossover from my inner 90s younger self would rationalize most early entertainment mediums between comics like Spawn or video games like Mortal Kombat across together. Now since Mortal Kombat 11. Began seeing a lot of fans suggesting and wanting guest comic’s books in Mortal Kombat. Judge Dread. The Mask, Crow, V, WitchBlade, Shredder and of course, DC characters DC likes Deathstroke and Harley Quinn. So what’s i think about the whole thing, with honest opinions of me?

Reason:

Homelander and Omni-Man are too similar and would play the same archetype of Superman from similar, besides being twisted dark take on Man of Steel while they pretend to be heroes. They also both only been talked about because if leaks are true not be true or not. Either Warners Bros: Games or NRS only allowed these to capitalize both series popularity on Amazon Prime and due to massive fan’s demands. Plus got Peacemaker, why not save for the next Injustice then ever be a sequel to Injustice 2 or something like that. Isn’t because the show found popularity because with Injustice restrictions some of these violent comic books characters personality…Already not their personality. Movesets and not get to see all that bloody fatalities, that’s not seen in Injustice’s games. Didn't go against Comic Books Characters in fighting games like Mortal Kombat. My two characters want to see not in Mortal Kombat. Injustice instead. Jackie Estacado and Judge Dredd. Sure those two fit much better within Mortal Kombat. Judge Dredd and The Darkness are different and make sense. Because both series have connected with DC in the past with crossover issues from Judgment on Gotham to The Darkness/Superman. Invincible and The Boys have no connections and no context, for large amounts of fan’s requests. NetherRealm uses Homelander or Omni-Man as an excuse to allow developers to create brutal, impactful and bloody move sets for both Superman Analogues, which they couldn't do with the actual Superman from Injustice game.

Video Games Characters (the rights picks)

Past decent now or less than that’s since Kratos made his appearance in Mortal Kombat reboot 2011 game. Everyone Mortal Kombat wanting any video game’s characters to appear next in Mortal Kombat. Has seen suggestions of characters as Altair, Alex Mercer, Marcus Fenix (originally planned for MK9 for only Xbox exclusive, ultimately got scrapped), Raiden (MGS), Gabriel Belmont, Sweet Tooth, Akuma, Fulgore, Reaper, Sephiroth, Talion, Nemesis…Springtrap seriously and among the rest why Springtrap, from Fives Nights at Freddy? Don’t get the joke of it. This is what any fighting game fan dreams of. A roster filled with their favorite icons characters like in games like Mortal Kombat. Mortal Kombat is like Smash Bros. If Smash bros were T or less M rating. I read one reddit post complaining about how Mortal Kombat fans discuss guest characters from different franchises from other games.

Reason:

Really nothing against the idea of video games representation in Mortal Kombat. All guest video games characters have a chance. For a while make your own list of guests that are not definitely. Thought’s made sense from both technical and gameplay perspective-wise. If you don't accept them, that’s fine. While suggestions of some of the characters like Sephiroth, Raiden (Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance) or Reaper are fun to imagine, I didn’t really find myself to be pleased or happy if NetherRealm announces any characters that feel out of place. Specifically satisfied that’s small percentage of fans wanted their favorite game character without a second thought throughout development.

Doom Slayer

Everyone needed to hear me out first. Hear me out first! Calm downs. These my personal hot takes, known how’s internet rioting up that’s you didn’t agree with the majority of people with them. Already. Don’t want Doom Slayer in Mortal Kombat. I Have a very good reason. Before grabbing your chainsaw and wanting to Rip and Tear for my heresy against my thoughts for not wanting Slayer in Fighting game, let me explain why I don't think that Doom Slayer is not a bad fit but isn't the first choice of characters. I want to see Mortal Kombat.

Reason:

How I disagree fan-favorite requested guests characters like Michael Myers or Homelander that’s has seen multiple times are highly requested characters from everyone felt like no one thought up any original guest characters for Mortal Kombat. They’d agree to that person list and copy off that person and add that one character place to aid those guest characters that everyone who’s all agreed want to see. For me. I am not following the same list or feeling in the same mindset on it. As a fellow fan of Doom. From playing all mainline games, collecting novels/art books and following the Doom community. Since then it has appreciated old-school shooters like Doom in recent years. Learn the acknowledgement about the development game cycles due to how this one of not the greatest but important games to gaming industry and culture revolution. Those who made some good arguments and points why Doom Slayer. Thought maybe instead about one of the Slayer ancestors? Would explain that later for another time.

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skellebonez · 1 year

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I love to see your response to that "Monkie Kid Watching and Dreaming" ask! I hope your answer it soon enough, Skelle. No rush, buddy.

*cracks knuckles* OK. Let's do this! Just to make things easier, I will be doing 3 sections on each trio. Doing 9 of these in detail would be a little too much for me. There's a lot of mentioned (fake) character death in here so I am putting this under a read more for safety.

Traffic Light Trio: This trio has variants on a single theme. Loss of control over their powers. For Mei it is the fire, everyone slowly being erased as it destroys reality. For Red Son he has hurt those closest to him with his fire (MK and his parents) except Mei, who is saying she should have never trusted him and how he never deserved the fire she was given once it was taken from him and this is evidence of that. MK? ... hard not to be tormented when you have all of SWK's powers. And he has a kaiju form. That you probably can't control. And SWK is his tormentor, saying he did indeed choose the wrong successor.

Sandwich Trio: This is the easiest Trio for me. They share the same respective worst nightmare, just with slight variations. MK and Mei are dead, along with the other two members of the trio. And it's THEIR fault, their ghosts tormenting them and blaming them for the choices that lead to their deaths. Pigsy is the one who is hit the hardest by this.

Spiders: Much like the TLT, I can see this being variations on a theme. A connecting thread would be failing to save their Queen, but for Goliath it would also come with failing to protect the others and the heroes turning on him and saying he never could have been a hero after all. For Syntax, with my mother headcanons, he sees her turning her back on him and leaving him truly alone. Huntsman is alone. Just. Alone. For him, having no one to serve or work with is the worst of all. No one even has to torment him. He does enough of that by finding everyone's graves.

#skelleask #monkie kid #lego monkie kid #toh spoilers

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mccarthymolly · 1 year

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At night 'purple drank': Review associated with promethazine misuse in line with the European Treatments Firm undesirable drug response reports.

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why are you such a big undertale fan when the game seems to directly contradict your political/religious views? since so many christians are homophobic it seems strange to support a game with so many gay people in it. plus multiple characters can be very easily interpreted as trans (mettaton, mad mew mew, &more). i also believe frisk & chara to be non binary, but you seem to disagree on this. i don't think toby intended it to be up to interpretation, but since toby has not confirmed it (1/2)

Thomas Binger, is that you? Joke aside, it’s a video game.

Pointing out something is a sin isn’t the same as being afraid of it.

Telling someone to seek mental help is also not a phobia.

The majority of people in real life don’t even know what a non-binary person is. Most of the ones that do don’t agree with it. They’d fall into more traditionalist worldview on that one. There’s a certain irony in this one, considering the west has spent decades deconstructing gender roles (I’d say for the worst, in many cases).

“There are no gender roles, but if you don’t fit them then you’re shoved into a box. If you do fit them, you’re also shoved into a box.”

Ultimately though, your personality isn’t your gender.

MK has been called a boy before in the original prints of the art book (the same applies to Blooky).

As far as MTT goes… I always got Michael Jackson vibes from him. Being super extra=/= being trans by default.

We pick Chara’s name. That speaks a lot of power.

While Toby didn’t say anything about Frisk publicly/directly, he did have an interview in 2015 where the interviewer said that his knowledge was that you play as “some girl” that fell in a cave. Toby basically just nodded- seemingly, this was information given to the Escapist by Toby at the time.

Ultimately it’s best left up to individual interpretation. Want to picture Frisk as a gal? Cool, same here. Boy? Always fun to see the variation. Non binary? Welp, if that’s your prerogative. Saying “there’s no reason to let people decide something” doesn’t make it necessarily true. At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if he was afraid to say anything specific as far as gender goes about any character the fandom has called non-binary out of fear of retaliation. Especially considering Undertale is, unfortunately, the fandom of needle cookies and doxxing/death threats.

The Underground is a heavily armed, largely religious society that places a high value on life. Lot of Christian themes in there. They also have knowledge of Santa, aka Saint Nicholas, who famously slapped someone for heresy at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD.

There were many sinners in the tribes of Israel. God freed them from Egypt anyway.

This was way longer than intended. Hope it helps though.

#azzy does a politic #sorta lol #an ask!#anonymous

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Quick Google search says the magic lotus lantern is a story from Chinese folklore. Chen xiang being the nephew of erlang (the guy I think helped finally caught wukong after the shit he pulled at the peach festival) being the son of his sister who, apparently, flipped heaven the bird and married a mortal man pissing of erlang? But she has this badass magic lotus lamp that somehow(?) Beat him? Dunno it doesn't explain.

Anyway eventually erlang catches up to his sis. Her husband either dies or erlang kills him? (Not sure different sources say different things) and kidnaps their son Chen xiang and threatens him to get her magic lantern before dropping a mountain on her (which seems to be a bit of a recurring theme in Chinese folklore).

Anyway something something Chen escapes and ends up being taught martial arts by the monkey king... In some tellings. Apparently there's some variation there.

Which I guess is the connection? Chen xiang being a student of the monkey king and not having his parents around are, I think, all I can find to connect him to mk.

Dunno doesn't seem strong. I mean if mk gets a magic lotus lamp or axe (which Chen used to free his mom from that mountain) then I could see more of a connection and it'd be awesome if that's the case but... Eh...

Ah, thank you very much! And yeah, I don't really see a connection between the two characters outside of Monkey King training them.

But now, completely unrelated to the previous ask you sent, I wonder if the Shadow Lantern we see in the show is connected/inspired by this lotus lantern. Unless there is another magic lantern in Chinese folklore that I don't know of

#Magic Lotus Lantern #lego monkie kid #monkie kid #winter answer #winterpower98

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Crimson's Variation Collections: Black Dragon Bloody

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criquette-was-here · 4 years

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Busy Roads

TS2 Hood Deco Vehicles Set

With this neighborhood decorative vehicles set you can easily fill your local parking spaces and streets with cars! Wide range of colour and form variations (The set consists of 102 items in total) gives you lots of combination possibilities.

All cars available under ‘Misc’ submenu.

Branded vehicles do require ‘High Street’ Shop facades set

Important: Please always keep ‘crqtt_HoodDecoCarsMaterials.package’ together with the vehicles you’re going to use. FYI:

These decorations does not have any lights at night.

This set does not include lot mode truck chassis for mobile themed lot builds;

Animated neighborhood traffic default replacemets are not included in this release;

All the cars share materials and textures and available color options achieved thanks to RGB colouring feature within material definition which makes the whole set extremely economical game memory wise and saves about 120-150 Mb of CC.

Disclaimer:

The whole set is optimised for decorative and lot mode roads. That means that the cars won’t levitate in lot mode and at the same time, in neighborhood mode, the wheels will sink in game generated roads.

What’s inside:

Forth Pulley MK II in 3 variations Forth Pulley MK II Campion in 6 variations Forth Pulley MK II Cargo in 3 variations Forth Pulley MK II Crew Cab in 3 variations Forth Pulley MK II Minibus in 3 variations Forth Pulley MK II Cargo, Branded in 5 variations

Ground Stroller Series MM in 6 variations Ground Stroller Series MM, short wheelbase in 3 variations

SMC Racoon in 9 variations

Takemizu Arable in 3 variations Takemizu Better in 3 variations

Vikea 2400LP (sedan) in 5 variations Vikea 2400LP Estale in 5 variations

Vikea 2400LP Police Car

Yolkinets 4O8 (sedan) in 4 variations Yolkinets 4I2 Estate in 4 variations Yolkinets 4I2 Van in 4 variations

Trucks and heavy haulage:

Garland Noriker Tractor Unit in 2 variations Garland Bubalina Tractor Unit in 3 variations

Garland Noriker Box Van in 4 variations + 1 branded Garland Bubalina Box Van in 2 variations + 2 branded

Garland Dustcart in 2 variations

Garland Milk tanker + 1 branded

Garland Fuel tanker + 1 branded

Garland Tipper Loaded/Empty

Semi-traler in 6 variations + 2 branded

Flatbed semi-trailer loaded/empty

DOWNLOAD (SFS) Enjoy!

Sincerely, Criquette

#ts2 hood deco #hood deco vehicles #Busy roads #ts2 cc #sims 2 custom content #Neighborhood Deco #Download #hood deco cars

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Some Things to Know

(Frequently asked questions and other information)

What is this blog?

It's an underswap ask blog comic based on @askfriskandcompany . From the beginning I got Trash Queen's blessing. Many themes story elements, back stories and characters come from there. It's not a direct remake in swap style. The broad strokes are the same, but due to the nature of ask blogs and the fact that the askers know things ahead of time, I expect certain things to turn out differently. That's the fun of it!

Undertale is by Toby Fox.

What will the swap be like?

My goal is to keep the core of the characters the same (ie: Chara likes chocolate) while moving them around to a new destiny. To see how putting a character in a different situation would change them, and in turn change the situation. Kinda a nature vs nurture deal.

The ships remain the same, because everyone's heart/ attractions are the same, and I think it would be weird to do it some other way.

Not everything in the world is swapped, (mostly because that would be super complicated) but a few key things are, things that might be funny or interesting. But History (besides some dates and maybe names due to interference from the monster war) is not swapped. All the wars and things happened the same, ended the same, and had the same impact on the world.

List of swaps I have so far: Chara/ Frisk, Sans/ Papyrus, Toriel/Asgore, Alphys/ Undyne, Asriel (Flowey, Maverick Chaos Dragon)/ MK (Tem, Maverick Kayos Drake), mettaton(hapstablook)/ Napstablook(napstaton), nicecream guy/ burgerpants, Bratty n Catty/ Otto n Owen (RG 1 and 2), Grillby/ Muffet, Shop Bunny/Hotel Bunny

People I don't think I will swap: Onion-san, Gerson, Jerry, The Royal Guard Dogs, Mad Mew Mew(mad dummy), Amalgamates. However small details about them may have changed for example, Gerson "hit the jackpot" and became an eccentric millionaire and bought whatever Chara sold him, sometimes randomly changing the price on something he "had to have." You can also choose to donate to his scholarship program for Rowdy teens and after 1000 G the college sends him exclusive historical armor which he will sell to you at a discount if you have died in battle a lot. (It's not like you paid for the armor, your donations were a small percent of his donations)

Will there be a dub/ can I dub it?

Yes!!! I'm doing a dub now, on my YouTube channel miamouse!

If you or someone you know would like to dub it, I would love to hear it!!! I ask you to let me know ahead of time, credit me as Miamouse with a link back to the blog. Maybe send me a link to your video if you can! I wanna seeeeee!!!!

Fanart?

Same rules! I would love to see it!!!! Tag me, either with this blog or @miamouse-va or you can submit it directly. I would not like to see heavy gore or sexual content. Don’t do it. Don’t be weird.

Memes are ok. Go for it!

How do I send an ask that can be in the comic?

Please use the ask feature. There should be a link on top of the blog. Not submit, not in the notes, not fanmail, not YouTube comments. I'll do my best to answer questions from there, but the ask feature has the format I need for the comic, ya know?

Try to keep it current to what is going on. Make sure you read the whole comic before asking! Try not to get too off topic as well (a little is probably ok) changing the subject is fine in moderation.

It's ok to send a couple variations but please don’t spam the same thing!!

Keep it clean. Minimal swearing, please. Nothing weird or gross.

Keep in mind that I may not be able to use your ask, even if it meets the criteria. I can only use so many. Or maybe I'm saving it for later. Just gotta get lucky, I guess.

Crossover with AFAC????!!!

TQ said she was down. It would be some time after her current arc, and sometime after Blue Echoes (current arc). We've discussed some ideas but obviously I can't say much because spoilers!

Other crossovers?

Sorry, no Man Who Speaks In Hands or Ask Drunk Chara. I don’t want to do that to either Rei or Hawker. They are both done with their comics and burnt out on Undertale. It wouldn't make sense anyway. Ima let them rest. I did get permission to use Afac Harlow Garamond, but that's a different matter entirely.

I am also planning one with @askthedreemurr-fontfamily !! (Please read their comic!!! And Ask Young Chara too)That one has a good vibe and they have portals and visitors to their world so crossing over is not such a stretch. I dont know what the crossover would be about or when it could take place, but we'll talk about it later. There’s a lot to figure out. (I'm thinking it would serve the same purpose as the drunk Chara crossover)

Other crossovers besides that? Maybe. Crossovers are hard.

Send stuff to characters??

I have a chocolate pile in my corner of the 4th wall zone where askers can send normal (technically magical, and can be various degrees of dark) chocolate bars. Up to 10. That I may send to Chara's fridge one at a time as needed and in a way that is not suspicious. No other chocolate please. No matter how clever. They can't stand out!! I'm at 50+ right now. [CHOCOLATE BOX IS CLOSED]

There is also Toriel's Recipe Binder that you can add recipes to!! You can send as many cleaver recipes as you want! (Just not duplicates, for example I revealed that Frisk likes strawberry cake and I got a couple of those, in which case I will take the first one) It works because her binder was made so that anyone from the house can put in their own recipes so it could be a compilations. So new recipes that suddenly appear there, aren't much of a surprise.

Other things should be sparingly. Like the nicecream someone sent Hermann. Something simple and not too big, expensive or OP. I don't get them from the garbage( a personal choice) my Character Mia Mouse is a Therapist and buys them with her money. So it should be things that are reasonably affordable and easy to obtain that exist in that world.

Asker powers?

Since when were you in control? For real though, you have some limited powers to say things, mage hand stuff. send minor things. influence the course of events. but anything you want to do is always over-ridden by Miamouse powers. i drive this crazy train. I can allow or deny whatever i dang well please.

Update schedule?

>_>; once a month or more often if I can. [Though sometimes I lose track of time all together,] I don't have a consistent day or anything. I go at my own pace, and that tends to be kinda slow. I have 2 real life jobs that takes a lot of my energy. I also have the dubs to do. Also I get distracted by video games frequently. This is a fun project/ hobby and I'm not gunna let myself get overwhelmed by it.

Commissions?

Possibly! Message me @true-miamouse for details.

Fowey the Flowers?

They live in a greenhouse and Asgore tends to them. they’re not much for conversation and won’t play much of a role.

Why no Grayscale?

Technically, it was never AFAC that was black and white, it was the askers who were colorblind. That changed when Alphys poked the portal while MWSIH Asriel was busy Being rainbow hyper death, (this effected several adjacent universes!)

One Watsonian explanation could be that this event also effected ACAF universe but it is on a different time scale than AFAC so it changed the color blindness prior to Chara getting a blog.

Another Watsonian explanation could be that Erica who controls the AFAC camera, was blind in life and possibly colorblind as a ghost?,(not physically nothing afflicted her anymore,) but she just didn’t realize she was missing anything before that event. In ACAF, Paolo controls the camera, and with their glasses, they can see fine.

The Doyalistic reason is that Trashqueen chose not to color the comic early on, and changed her mind later. And I simply chose to have things colored from the beginning. In the end, it’s just a personal preference.

Name all the characters favorite XYZ!

this kind of question is hard to answer. especially all the characters at once.. maybe i should make stat cards with heights, age, b-day, favorite color, song, food, Disney movie, game, anime etc. but for now, please don’t be sad if this type of ask doesn’t get through. it’s just that it’s overwhelming.

Why isn’t this like other underswaps?

it’s not supposed to be. i wanted it to only loosely be the idea of under swap. not any particular canon. for example: Napsta Blook became Napstaton instead of Napstabot. why? because that’s just the name they wanted when they became a robot. Alphys wields ninja tools instead of an axe. why? obviously it’s because she’s a weeb. Sans doesn’t like to be called Blueberry. things like that. i want this to be a little more me flavored, ya know?

Is the underground different?

A little, here and there. but mostly it looks the same. each area has a new name because Toriel named it tho. Home= Timeless Gardens, Snowdin=Winter Wood, Waterfall= Glittering Falls, Hotland= Sizzling Springs, The Core = El Nucleo, and New Home = Quiet Gardens. One interesting difference is that Blue Echo Flowers do not exist, and instead, Red Echo Flowers live near lava.

[updated: 1/15/23]

#frequently asked questions #faq #how the comic works #how the swap works #mysterious chocolate count #toriel's recipe binder #update schedule #dubs #commission #how to #send stuff #send asks #about the characters #Gerson Boom #crossover #afac #MWSIH #ask drunk chara #ask the dreemurr font family

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official kustard week prompts! (pre-release)

kustard week is gonna start sunday, september 15th, 2019!

this is just so you guys have a little more advance notice. we’ll release posts with this again at the time.

remember to put “#kustard week” as one of the first five tags in your post. we’ll keep an eye on the tag and reblog whatever fits our sfw criteria for kustardlovin.

this year the theme’s memes, so i’m including some explanations in case people don’t know what it’s referring to. i tried to pick stuff that would fit with AU’s and sans and just general memes.

also feel free to do your own thing for this week. even your own memes. these are just suggestions for fun.

Day 1: “hello hello, i’m not where i’m s’posed to be.“

this is usually found on vids where someone or something’s out of place.

examples:

https://t.co/XRdL9bdpo0

https://t.co/nkbdOlVqbe

https://t.co/hl32HamYMN

Day 2: "you can’t do that, he’s baby."

“dude you are about to GET it” “wait wait wait wait. i’m baby.” “hey stop wait you can’t do that. he’s baby.”

https://t.co/I39hJkgo3C

Day 3: "hit or miss.”

this... has like it’s own dance but honestly i just think it’s hilarious to include ‘hit or miss’ on a sans-ish prompt. it’s just a popular song, no real depth otherwise haha.

https://t.co/4kdTK9Rhra

Day 4: “loss.jpg”

honestly i just can’t not include loss.jpg. try to keep this one a little light, tho, eh? no blow-by-blow re-enactments ok?

explanation: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/loss

Day 5: “30-50 feral hogs.”

not gonna lie this is just random. i have no idea what you’re going to do with this.

explanation: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/30-50-feral-hogs

Day 6: “let’s storm area 51.”

this was actually the inspiration for this week because september 20th is supposed to be the day. also maybe don’t actually go storm area 51.

explanation: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/storm-area-51

Day 7: “someone like you.”

considering the number of AU sanses in existence and this is really an AU sans ship blog, and hey there’s lots of fell and classic variations... i like the idea ok.

started with gummy bears, but a multitude of something set to adele’s someone like you.

example: https://t.co/WHxk8MR8zQ

now the idea is just like... “inspired by memes” not like, “make memes” or videos. just do whatever you feel like.

i don’t know who’s still active but tagging some folks i think might want to know.

@chaoticdoodler @undertaletale @tinderboxofsillyideas @muskka @mk-doodles @piethecreator @smashpeach @undertailsoulsex@angstflavoured @onesinnerzerostandards @hakkids @cathper @modambrosia @dreemurr-skelememer @jtks

sorry if i missed anyone there.

signal boosts appreciated! thanks a ton!

#kustard #kustard week #underfell #undertale #sans

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Wolf 359 Classpects, pt. 1

Soooo, while I was still busy with the last few weeks of my summer internship, I did keep thinking about classpecting the Wolf 359 cast. Possibly too much, because it wouldn't leave me alone until I'd solved my own God Tier riddle. Unfortunately, it got really long in the solving because I have many Thoughts and want to share all of them, always, so uh, a complete Classpect Analysis of Wolf 359 will be in parts? This first one covers Eiffel's, Hera's, Lovelace's and Minkowski's aspects.

DOUG EIFFEL: An utter no-brainer; ya boi Dougie Fresh is a Breath player if I ever saw one. For Chrissakes, he's the communications officer, and the first one to start complaining about the monotony of being stuck in a deep space sardine can. Breath is associated with communication, freedom, openness, and change - "free as the breeze", you might think of it, but that also leads to Breath players having trouble pinning themselves down to anything. They get skittish if they feel pinned down, and frustrated when stuck in place. Doug's noncommittal aloofness, the way he's off in his own little world (partially to hide from the fact he really does not like himself very much at all), and the way he's incorporated media into his self-perception all match pretty well with John and the Nitrams. But at the same time, he's the one playing mediator even as early as The Sound And The Fury. Being largely outside of the War Industrial Complex the other characters are so familiar with and thus mostly free from its dogmatic worldview of hierarchy and order, he's becomes the One Sane Man when he's the one to shout "what is WRONG with you people?" when "murder" shows up in the top 3 potential solutions to a problem, and he has no hesitation in saying what's on his mind. And it's not all complaints and bad ideas, either; he's got whole speeches telling the others how amazing he thinks they are and how in awe he is of their skills. A key catalyst in the plot of Wolf 359 is the reaching effects of his radio broadcasts. Also, there's something hilarious to the fact that for the aspect associated with communication, Doug *literally* cannot lie to save his life. I kept my ears open for the infamous Breath Hex on my second listen - that is, the strange little way in which things Breath players say tend to come to pass in reality. Cigarette Candy is basically 20 straight minutes of the Decima virus being Breath Hexed into existence, and he guessed Lovelace's situation in one - "Maybe she's a clone, or like a *really* good robot replica."

HERA: Another easy one. Although Hera is resistant to splintering as we've come to recognize it, Heart players are nothing if not determined to be an individual. They have a firm idea of themselves as a person and defend it fiercely, including compartmentalizing away pieces that don't fit their self-image. Maybe less actively putting them down like Jade Harley did to Jadesprite (the manifestation of the negative feelings she repressed out of fear they'd make her less useful) - that would mean attacking or denying a part of themselves - and more... "why yes, I put this part of myself in this box, and I may look at the box on occasion, the box definitely exists, but I don't go near the box and I definitely do not touch or open or interact with the box. And then one day, I will die." So that piece finds other avenues to express itself because it can't not do that. Hera's programming dictates she be "chipper and non-confrontational and always ready to help", but she actively resists being a mere utility and always has - her earliest know action was to attempt a jailbreak of the manufacturing facility she was made in, born rebel that she is. She will insist upon her name over her serial number unless you force her not to, and gets passive-aggressive at people treating her like a machine. And yet, even as she teaches herself to ignore commands literally written into the base of her personality, she doesn't reject her directive to be helpful, nor does she express a wish to be a flesh-and-blood human, or even really to have a physical form? She has a human self-image in mental spaces (we presume, I will semi-seriously point out there's nothing definitively stating she doesn't see herself as like, her fursona or something), but when she has to limit herself to a human-like view of the ship, her immediate reaction is "this is weird, I don't like it." This is honestly something about Hera that I think may be unique among non-villainous AI characters; she seems to be content with being what she is in general, and she just wishes for people to treat her as a person and not a piece of equipment they can do with as they please.

ISABEL LOVELACE: Arm-wrestled Hera for the Heart aspect and lost, despite Hera not actually having any arms, but that's okay because there's two aspects that fit her much better: Blood and Time. I ultimately went with Blood.

This is the part where you notice I'm onto the third of four characters in an aspects-only meta post, yet there is still a lot of post to go. This is because These Kinds Of Characters, the sort that're constantly on emotional lockdown, are a Challenge Mode, and for me to truly be satisfied with my classification I have to start drilling into the bedrock of what it even means to have an aspect in general, what it means to have a specific aspect, and what each aspect is really about. When you're on that level you tend to find yourself throwing out explicit expositional statements as incomplete, oversimplified, or unreliable, and looking at the text directly with a subtextual electron microscope. Brace yourselves. I have thrown the author out of the airlock, and I am about to get verbose.

Lovelace's character sheet describes her in contradictions, and we get to see two different sides to her that resolve into the complete picture by the time Lovelace Mk. III wakes up. There's Captain Isabel Lovelace, goofing around in her earlier logs, and The Terminator. She does things Her Way and is very much prepared to fight you if you object - the whole reason she was picked for the Hephaestus mission was her willingness to go against (in her words) "stupid orders" and do what she thought was right. She's also fiercely loyal; The Terminator is the end result of her anger and grief for her lost crew and at her failure to get them home alive. Her backstory episode has her summing up her complicated relationship to the Air Force with "I owe a lot of who I am to them." And even before she and Minkowski have completely stopped butting heads, Lovelace shoves her out of the way of an exploding wall panel that would've killed her, and takes a near-fatal bit of shrapnel to the gut in the process. At her best, Lovelace is a fearless, boundlessly determined, dedicated firebrand of a leader. At worst, she can be impatient, stubborn, shortsighted, and ruthless. I dunno about you but that reminds me of a certain... angry crab that I know.

"Time" was what a few people chimed in with for Lovelace and while I see some of the connections (her awareness of the time loop, "Variations on a Theme", her multiple selves and multiple deaths, the repeated motif of clocks and pocketwatches) I don't think she quite fits in with the other Time players. Unlike most Time players, she doesn't have a fixation with historic context, the "Why Things Are The Way That They Are." This manifests in Dave's paleontology and his taking of source material for ironic twisting, Aradia's archaeology and knowledge of The Nature Of The Game, Damara's... /noises and vague gestures bc I don't want to go back through Meenahbound but her role as The Handmaid fits the pattern, and Caliborn's own warped, thoughtless replication of narrative archetypes. Context. Decisions. What came before and how it shapes the now, where your decisions will take it from here. The consequences those decisions will have. The details versus the larger picture. Even failure has its place in that scheme - that's the Time aspect. Lovelace doesn't like to dwell, she's a very "barrelling forward momentum" kind of person.

Side note: Aradia, Dave, and Damara all face hesitation to take action they had to learn to overcome. Also, all of them had to be pushed to use violence except in self-defense; Aradia let Vriska cross a series of lines before beating the everloving shit out of her, and Damara snapped after what, years? Of Meenah's abuse. Dave, on the other hand, never raises a hand to another person except as a complete necessity. Caliborn is, if anything, an aberration here in that he's outright homocidal and self-doubt is something that happens to other people. Caliborn is an outright aberration to a lot of Time player patterns, and to SBURB in general, because it's SBURB, so the rules are made up and the points don't fucking matter, except when they do, because Fuck You, The Author Said So.

No, Lovelace's approach to decision-making is that regrets are for afterwards, and "if I fail I deserve to be out of this picture; also, this situation has gone entirely pear-shaped, time to fling myself into the sun." (and that sounds an awful lot like someone that I know very well, but I'll deal with that royal mess when I get to the crazy whamma-jamma that is Classes). Impatience and railroading of other people can be her undoing just the same as assertiveness and decisiveness are her gifts.

...aaand then I went ahead and watched the live episode and yeah, major Karkat vibes there. However, I note that I don't believe we have ever hit hard evidence in Homestuck that Blood players are capable of Chilling The Fuck Out - this is part of the limitations of classpecting characters who weren't made for this system, you really have to dig into how much of their behavior is situational and where you see the kernel of individual perception shine through, the Rosetta Stone by which you begin to see the constants. "Where the object becomes the subject", to quote Memoria.

Finally, I think it's also worth noting that while Lovelace has a lot of connections to Time motifs, she also has connections to a lot of Blood motifs that arguably become more important to her story. Personal bonds and social justice are two of the Blood aspects strongest associations - see Lovelace's loyalty to her crew, and extending her desire to avenge them out to everyone Goddard Futuristics has ever used and tossed aside. The physical body and literal blood are other strong associations, and gee, how many times does the O-negative Cure-All Alien Juice in Lovelace's veins become a critical plot point? Not to mention the implication that her new friends all pulled through the finale because all of them now have her blood in their system. I'll accept that she's closer to the line between Blood and Time than some, but I'm holding by ground here:

(Also, here's some irony for you, she may share an aspect with the Cancer trolls, but her birthday is August 11th, making her a Leo.)

RENEE MINKOWSKI: Minkowski was the hardest of these 4 to come to a decision on. My first inclination was Mind. Her general disposition put me in mind of a Life player. But then, I sat down and thought my way past the Commander's layers of emotional armor and ultimately settled on Light.

First off, by being a stickler for protocol and procedure as well as an Actual Responsible Adult, Minkowski is a kind of character that Homestuck straight-up just does not have, so snap judgements aren't gonna cut it here. This is, again, another limitation of the classpecting system - all the examples we have to draw from are teenage disasters stuck in a lawless hellscape of some description or another, and written by an author allergic to boxing himself in with hard conclusions. But I digress.

Commander Minkowski is also stubborn. When she sets her mind to something, she digs in her heels, cranks the dial to 11, and then breaks off the knob and pockets it so you can't turn it back down. We see this as soon as episode 2, and at it's most hyperbolic when she Captain Ahabs the plant monster. Her's is iron-willed, bloody-minded, unstoppable, Determi-fucking-nation - when she sets her mind to it.

The submarine thought exercise is what had me initially lock her down as a hero of Mind before I mulled it over. The exercise is meant to provoke thought about priorities - what you think your role's purpose is in that situation will determine your priorities, and thus, your decisions. Mind heroes' most prominent skills are in riding the flow of causality, watching decisions, their causes and their consequences, and directing that path. They know people, and how to direct people. But the need for this means that they can get a little co-dependent. Other people are understandable - it's themselves that Mind heroes have the greatest struggle with. Without that vehicle of another person, Mind heroes may find themselves adrift and struggling to define themselves. This is fitting, given Mind is the most direct counterpart to the Heart aspect.

However, upon further examination, I found that this framework of priorities setting your decisions can also be extended to the Light aspect. What is "lucky" in a given situation? What do you define as a fortunate outcome? Rose arguably gets Grimdark'd by something like this, she asks the cue ball "are the horrorterrors evil?" and in doing so attempts to pry into the motivations and intent of *indescribable eldritch beings existing on a nigh-incomprehensible plane* and wedge it down into a relative human understanding of morality, which is sort of like trying to fit the Pacific Ocean into a water bottle. She was trying to deduce what impact the horrorterrors would have upon her and her friends, but asked the wrong question and got an answer she couldn't handle. She didn't recognize Doc Scratch was baiting her into this by leading her into a specific framework through which to ask the question. Vriska died because of her failure to recognize she was in a situation where luck didn't matter. Aranea got trounced because of her inability to recognize that reshuffling reality to prioritize herself and her preferred outcomes still didn't overcome the fundamental nature of timelines - you try to take over the alpha timeline with an insubordinate branch? That's a doomed timeline no matter how you slice it, and we know what happens to those. Luck and knowledge are both used by the Light-bound to give themselves power, whether in showing themselves off as The Smart One or the The Helpful One or The Unstoppable One, but their limited viewpoint often leads them to overlook the limitations of their own framework, or in other words, missing the bigger picture. I'll point out here also how Minkowski has the entire DSSPPM memorized and is the one who wants to get to the bottom of whatever the hell is really going on up at Wolf 359. Additionally, one of her other ambitions, at least once upon a time, was writing musicals. The verbal arts are one of the domains of Light players.

So while on the surface, Minkowski bears the most resemblance to a Life player, Life players tend to have an element of conformity to them. Unquestioned assumptions they've internalized have about the context in which they exist. Light heroes, on the other hand, need conformity so they have something to defy when they jump up and down screaming LOOK AT ME!

So after much pontificating, I came to a decision. In the end, what Minkowski wanted more than anything else was a stage. Maybe to direct rather than hold the spotlight, but still; that's a Light hero if ever I saw one.

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How Travis Touchdown Can Smuggle More Indie Characters into Super Smash Bros Ultimate With Just One Character Slot.

I haven’t played any game in the No More Hero’s series, or even watched a play-through. But seeing reviews for the latest game Travis Strikes Back, (particularly The Completionist one) and re-watching trailers, I had an epiphany.

Travis could seriously change this game, with just his stage alone.

Travis Strikes back is a side-story, where Travis, and someone trying to kill him for vengeance sake get stuck in the Death Drive MK II where they have to beat 6 games to escape, and have a wish granted for them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG24TTOhg_A

These 6 games are nods to real games that Suda51 (The creative mind behind No More Hero’s) really enjoys and appreciates, and in the game itself there’s even T-shirts you can equip to Travis that reference various IRL indie games.

If Travis were added to Smash Bros, The Death Drive MK II, could be a stage that cycles back and forth between each of the 6 games, and the 80′s/90′s cyber space aesthetic featured in the game as a whole.

But for Super Smash Bros Ultimate. the Death Drive MK II could feature 6 real life indie games instead!

This would carry over the themes of celebrating the independent game developers that are Present in Travis Strikes back, while still maintaining the general vibes from the game, and Travis’s Weeb/Gamer personality as a whole.

And while having the character’s and level elements in each respective game appearing as individual stage hazards might get hectic, it would also evoke the crazy and wild nature of Travis Touchdown’s games.

Just imagine for a second, fighting in the crazy looking cyber space map, then suddenly it warps and your in a big beach area with bouncy enemies, and a purple dancing genie, then it warps back into cyberspace land. Then it warps again into a dark world of grim monsters, with inky black enemies, and a tiny little knight fella with a skull helmet, somehow manages to fight them off. Reality shifts again, back in the cyberspace land. Next thing you know your in a snowy place with goofy pixelated looking skeletons.

In this way Travis Touchdown would not only be an indie rep in symbolism, but in function as well.

Ever since I’ve been following serious discussions about an Indie Rep being added to Smash Bros in the Wii U/3DS games, from serious discussions to a character’s relevancy and their iconic mark on history, To Swams Munderfail memes. I’ve been legitimately hoping to see something come out of this. to see a comparative small, independent character rise up, and join the ranks of the famed Super Smash Bros Roster.

And with most Indie Character’s Roles being integrated primarily as spirits, with only Shovel Knight as an exception as an Assist Trophy. The Chances of one being added as a fighter seem even lower, and the speculation of DLC fighters is reflecting that, as predictions lean more towards the big name characters like Sora, Minecraft Alex/Steve, Master Chief, Etc.

Which is why I feel that if there’s gonna be a strong “Indie rep” it’s gotta have to hit hard, and utilize the indie space as a whole to it’s highest degree. Extending past a single genre like Platformers, or RPG games.

What 6 Indie games would you like to see integrated into Travis’s Death Drive MK II Stage?

Personally, I’d Like to see: Hollow Knight, Shantae, Cave Story, Undertale, Shovel Knight, and A Hat in Time.

On hand, this selection is more Platformer Heavy, and you could argue that it lacks diversity, on the Other Hand, back when the Wii U Ballot was happening, it was most of these platforms that fans have been asking for, and I feel that it would line up more with the Indie Rep crowd than going out of our way to look for other characters.

But if they did focus on genre diversity in this Hypothetical Stage design, for this Hypothetical DLC Challenger pack fighter. I think at least Undertale could come in some form or another, given that it sticks out as a unique variation of the RPG genre.

Travis Touchdown’s Final Smash Could also draw from Travis Strikes Back game.

And if it does, then that could lead even more room for more crossover and references!

Though to be completely honest, I feel like it would be best if between Indie Characters getting integrated into his Final Smash, or his stage, That it has to one or the other, not both.

After All, Travis is his own character. And I think his final smash would be better off as that kick-ass beam sword shit I see whenever I glimpse just a bit of his game-play footage.

But what do you think? Feel free to comment in either the replies or via re-blog!

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