#apex critical

[lifetanes]

octane is 26 y/o let him be responsible for his fuck ups once i challenge you apex community

#he is not a poor baby whos got done wrong #and his dads abuse is no excuse to absolve him of all responsibility #he deliberately made the choice to support and endorse his grandpa in return of some pats on the shoulder #its okay and humab that this happened #but some of u guys need to stop coddling that grown man #and need to let him own up his mistakes and for ONCE let him fix them by his herself #sick of the way some of u will see a moc and start treating him like a baby #apex legends #octane #apex critical

[is-there-a-filipino-legend-yet]

The fact that EA and Respawn has laid off many employees, especially those who have been working long-term, is just depressing

They've laid off a lot of writers, and if rumors are correct, they're going to proceed with using AI. So yeah, it's all downhill from here...

Source:

#apex legends #Apex critical #Apex Legends critical #banter of legends #Fuck EA #Fuck Electronic Arts #fuck capitalism

[apexlegends-patchnotes]

PATCH NOTE #35

This galaxy-brained take by @/cryophase

#apex legends #Apex critical #patchnotes.txt

[seerofmike]

It’s Okay To Say Gay, Apex

[this is a repost of something i made on reddit so some of the comments in this post will be like directly aimed at reddit so sorry if any of this reads as weird because of that LOL]

it’s pride month, and there’s no better time other than pride month to make a post about the lore and rep of LGBT+ characters in apex. also this post was partially inspired by the comments under respawn’s recent ‘Trans Rights’ post. more on that later.

this post is a critique, so i won’t be saying many positive things in it, but i do want to get it out of the way now that respawn is one of the better AAA games when it comes to handling LGBT+ rep, and the fact that we even have this much representation at all is great. astounding. but it also falls drastically short, and i think it is something important to discuss. and yes, this does have shit to do with lore, i can hear some of you typing--because not every identity is treated equally in lore.

so let’s get to it.

what partially inspired me to make this post about mlm specifically when i originally planned on doing a post about *all* the LGBT rep in apex is the simple fact that scrolling under respawn’s recent  post, half the comments are about fuse and seer. (the other half are asking where bangalore is lol).

“wait, fuse is gay?”

“fuse and seer are gay????”

“i didn’t know seer was gay? since when?”

i also asked for lgbt+ people’s opinion on how the rep is overall in four different places, and while other things were complained about, the thing complained about the most was the fact that the mlm in apex aren’t allowed to...well, love men.

now, to ELABORATE:

YES, gibraltar has nik. YES, they have kissed in lore. gibraltar has mentioned nik in lore. nik was featured in-game in the season 7 comics. but let’s compare that to apex’s wlw rep.

i don’t really know how to say this, but valk is just. So Obviously a lesbian. she constantly talks about stealing your girl, how much she loves women, she’s been flirting with loba since release, loading screens mention that she hits on girls and has an ex-girlfriend. valk is so obviously a lesbian that it’s actually kind of impressive respawn pulled it off. i cannot imagine that making a character like this ten, hell even *five* years ago--look at how tracer’s identity is treated by overwatch--would have been easy or even possible.

loba also very clearly likes women. she flirts with valk, she has a voiceline referencing being bisexual, she spends much of season 5 lore materials openly flirting with cheryl amacci and yoko from hammond in order to get what she wants, she talks frequently in season 9 about being bangalore’s knight in shining armor, how she’s a beautiful woman, they have a date...she buys her flowers, and then gets upset when bangalore says they’re just friends...

and these two flirt. SO. GODDAMN. MUCH. every match they’re paired together. you can’t play a match with those two without hearing some innuendo about how they’re going to ‘’get cozy’’ after the game. it’s so obvious and also kind of uncomfortably sexual to the point that my brother, who knows Zero about lore, begged me to never pick loba again while he plays valk because it drives him nuts having my character flirt with his like that.

this isn’t shaming apex or its characters for its obvious and upfront sapphic romance. even if the love triangle is so fucking tiring at times, and makes you wish that they would just TALK TO EACH OTHER, the fact that valk and loba can be like this in a game like apex is honestly kind of a triumph in terms of representation.

makes ya wish that the men got the same treatment.

gibraltar’s bio makes mention of a boyfriend, and he has a location-specific voiceline (one of the hardest to trigger) about kissing his boyfriend at the thunderdome. until season 7 with the in-game comics, it would be very hard for someone who just plays the game to know that gibraltar is gay. and even then, nik and gibraltar are so safe it almost hurts.

look, i’m not saying they should’ve fucked or whatever in the comic, but i wanted to bring this up to highlight a thread that former writer tom casiello made in response to Nikbraltar kissing in a season 9 comic--about how he wanted the Nikbraltar kiss to show pure, gay love. wholesome love. safe for the kids. innocent love.

and yes, that’s so important, especially after years of homophobic rhetoric that gay people are Sex Fiends. but then you have to wonder: why must Nik and Gibraltar be wholesome, pure, and innocent, when valk and loba, in that very same season, were each talking about how Much they get babes?

to tom casiello’s credit, he does say that gibraltar’s sexuality had been ignored for nine seasons. and you know, gibraltar isn’t really the type of dude to talk about how much he gets guys, ya know? so sure. that’s fine. i don’t need gibraltar to tell me how many twinks he attracts at a gay bar. leave that to a character with a more flirty personality.

enter: fuse and seer.

fuse and seer have both been confirmed to be pansexual on twitter dot com.

that’s it.

end: fuse and seer.

okay jokes aside, fuse and seer. fuse’s bio mentions that he’s a man’s man. he, uh....uhhhh....he slaps caustic’s ass!  that counts, right? i mean, sure, it was played for a joke, but that should count. cool! those are all our hints that fuse likes men.

seer, he...um...

Seer Has Zero, Absolutely Zero, In-Game Or In-Bio Hints That He Is Attracted To Men.

starting with fuse first: fuse’s bio is so vague that people had to ask if he liked men. some people were convinced that ‘man’s man’ just meant he was a dude-bro or a super macho guy. even now some still interpret that line that way, and you have to pull up tweets from a developer at respawn to even know that fuse likes men. now, to be fair, fuse doesn’t really have any flirty lines with women, so it’s not really fair to complain that he doesn’t flirt with men, right? and besides, he seems taken with bloodhound, so why have him flirt with guys and gals at all?

seer is where we have a problem.

seer openly flirts with loba and lifeline, and maybe even rampart, too, if you choose to look at their interactions that way. he is very open with himself and others, and aside from the theory that he and octane are ex-boyfriends--which is just that, a theory--there is zero hint that seer is attracted to men. he flirts with no men, his bio makes no mention of it, and he hasn’t even received a single lick of lore for me to complain that his lore doesn’t show that he likes men, either, but all the same.

seer is FLIRTY. seer flirts with women. so why can’t he flirt with men?

it’s hard to tell that the mlm of apex are mlm. even with all the excuses in the world, that some of them aren’t the flirty types or relationship-oriented, when a mlm who IS flirty is added to the cast they still don’t have him flirt with men. the mlm of apex are so sanitized that when you post a pride picture including all LGBT+ legends, half the comments don’t know that 2 of our 3 confirmed mlm even like men.

now let’s talk about bangalore and mirage.

bangalore is much more subtle than loba and valk--in fact, some people are quite convinced she’s straight based off what she said about loba, but there are still hints to her attraction to women. she lets slip a mention of ‘her’, hinting to wraith in season 9 that she has feelings for loba. she’s upset when loba starts dating valk. her chronicles voice-act a bit from the overtime comics where she and loba agree to a date. she’s one of three key characters locked in a sapphic love triangle--to the point that the other half of the comments under that post are asking where bangalore is amongst the LGBT+ legends.

bangalore’s sexuality, while unconfirmed, still shows her attraction to women.

fun fact: did you know that the lore about mirage getting high and fucking a pumpkin by mistake and being super embarrassing for him was actually originally about mirage getting high and fucking a man by mistake and being super embarrassing?!

did you know that in a tweet where it’s stated that wattson and wraith have canonically fallen in love in several different universes, it’s also stated that about a dozen universes ‘involve’ crypto and mirage--but they also all involve a pumpkin?

mirage’s sexuality line was immediately turned into the butt of a long-tired pumpkin-fucking joke, with zero hints before or since that he is actually maybe interested in men, and the pumpkin thing actually ended up having originally been a joke about how embarrassing it is to accidentally be gay--and this all culminates in two different (albeit former) devs saying that mirage is a straight man.

and this is the same mirage who has talked about his ex, flirted with women, and mentioned how into girls he is. his mom even mentions it, too.

listen, i’m not saying i want him to be bi or gay. the opposite, in fact. but mirage’s sexuality and the potential of him being attracted to men is treated like a joke, and it turns out that there’s never been anything to grasp at all.

the wlw of apex are allowed to be just that: women who love women. valkyrie, unapologetically, loves girls. loba seems to have a preference for women. bangalore has feelings for loba. they’re stuck in this stupid love triangle that’s in your face and obnoxious and uncomfortable but they are so undeniably gay that it makes looking at apex’s mlm actually kind of sad.

gibraltar and his boyfriend were relegated to twitter comics after season 7, where their most explicit references to romance--their kiss--occured, out of game, and neither of them have done anything in lore since. fuse and seer are confined to twitter mentions only, even when it would make complete sense for seer to look at, idk, crypto or somebody and say “you are so handsome and also fucked up”.

i’m not mad that the wlw of apex have such strong rep. i’m just sad that the mlm of apex are hidden away, tucked into the hardest places to find lore, and even when their attraction to men is in-game, it’s so safe and sanitized that you could almost trick yourself into believing they’re not really gay, they’re just really good friends--or maybe their attraction to men is the punchline of a joke.

i’m not here to discuss why this happens--homophobia, the fetishization of sapphic women for the male audience--i’m just here to discuss that it *does* happen, and i hope that seer gets a super cool boyfriend one day.

[plz dont use the q word in notes/tags of this post i will be blocking u if u do not respect my wishes thanks]

#apex legends #seer #gibraltar #fuse #loba #valkyrie #bangalore #mirage #apex critical #lgbt #lgbt rep #<-- so i can find this post later lol

[theintentioncraft]

who loses harder bangalore being loba's rebound from valkyrie who was loba's rebound from bangalore who she never even initially dated to start with or marisa and asriel being called platonic by the show writers who ignored their entire romantic deal in amber spyglass

#trick question the real answer is me. i'm losing hard #yknow how disengaged i am with apex legend's writing when i don't even want lobalore and just wish no ship ever became canon #literally looked at the new voicelines and went smoking.jpg bc i don't trust the writers to not fuck it up #and hdm is well hdm... masriel nation are probably sick to death of hearing me rant about them by now #either way. every day i wake up and lose when it comes to ships lmao #stel talks #apex critical #(is there a different more widely used tag for negative posts about apex? someone lmk if there is)

[r0semultiverse]

Apex writers be like: We love amatonormativity so fucking much

#apex legends #apex critical #the thing with Pathfinder & Ashe didn’t make much sense either what is going on whose making the decisions here bruh #mine #OP

[nellasbookplanet]

Okay but a thought of mine given new rise by the animated intro after having it niggle at the back of my mind for months now are Ludinus and Otohan as villains and who’s going to be standing as the final big bad at the end of the campaign, the way Vecna and Lucien did for c1 and c2.

Because the obvious answer is Ludinus. He’s the instigator, the leader of the cult, a villain in the making for 2 whole campaigns and over a thousand years (not to mention the one who's actually interacted with the party outside of fights). But Otohan is the one standing center stage of the villain line-up in the opening. She’s the one shown actively fighting the party. And, more importantly (as narrative matters more than barely glimpsed easter eggs), she's the one tied to the history and setting of Marquet, who has actual stakes in the people there and has fought for (and against) them before in the Apex War (while the place Ludinus called home was torn down centuries ago, leaving him caring for seemingly nothing but his ultimate goal since). She’s the one who’s actually Ruidusborn, and she’s tied to the Luxon as well with her strange magic. And despite all this, she’s mostly passed under the radar so far, given very little developments or motives or history or even personality. She’s little more than a cool aesthetic and a handful of threats.

And here’s my thought: maybe that’s on purpose. Ludinus, in his great arrogance, has placed himself as the greatest threat, and he’s being treated as such by the Hells. But is he? He steals immortality, appropriates the very concept of being Ruidusborn while holding a secret resentment for lacking the very powers it grants. He barely knows what he’s doing, and certainly not what he's about to unleash. And is there anything more satisfying than seeing a deeply arrogant and hubristic villain taken down by his own folly in underestimating those around him? So what if, as the final fight edges closer, the person actually holding the powers Ludinus pretends to steps up out of the shadows she placed herself in, keeping her motives to herself, barely remarked upon by Ludinus or the Hells or the audience, and personally cuts him down and takes her place as THE exalted Ruidusborn?

#critical role #cr3 #ludinus da'leth #otohan thull #listen seeing arrogant villains who think themselves unbeatable taken down in great battles is cool and all #but there’s something deeply satisfying in seeing them made small by something utterly avoidable #ludinus thinks of the gods as his ultimate enemies #imagine the horror and confusion on his face if his right hand woman #(the one who’s place and powers and land he's brazenly laid claim to) #casually steps up and stabs him in the back #revealing that she’s been playing him since the start to grow her power while keeping her actual motives close to her chest #mr mercer i am begging you let us know more about otohan and the apex war. let her be more than a battle piece with a fancy backpack #not tagging this as spoilers bc it isn’t but I SURE HOPE IT WILL BE #nella talks cr

[tbgkaru]

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[mirapteo]

long overdue but chapter 2 of my ficcy is out :3c if you would like context, then well... link is below

#i dont like this drawing nor do i think the 2nd chapter was worth the wait but : #ah well :') #im a little more critical with my writing but im just having fun with the boys #need to remind myself #im happy people liked the 1st chapter tho #bc reading it now i was cringing honestly ����😭 #apex #apex fanart #apex legends #my art ♡ #crypto apex legends #apex crypto #mirage apex legends #apex mirage #cryptage #holohacker

[tbgkaru-woh]

My shop is currently open again! leftover sale on danmei, video game and TV fandom merch! we're currently moving houses as we couldn't afford our current one anymore so any sale is a huge help (both financially and by me losing a box full of merch)

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[vertexline]

On the topic of being back, have some of my older stuff I still really like ;w;

#ocs #fanart #critical role #mollymauk tealeaf #ashton greymoore #critrole fanart #arcane #arcane fanart #ekko #apex legends seer #apex legends #seer #dnd #tiefling #yuan ti #faun #dungeons and dragons #blubbs art #character design

[lifetanes]

i need you weirdos to full on stop equating friends calling each other bro or sis to real actual incest and using other peoples trauma to work your way around saying you simply dont like a ship bc you dont like it or bc it gets in your way of your favorite mlm ship or bc you still havent put enough work into questioning your own racism to recognize the pattern of always pushing black women out of the picture to be strong and independent and „better off w/o a man" like im fcking serious this has been going on for long enough and every time youre trying to pull off the siblings bs youre ridiculing victims just bc youre to chicken shit to call your dislike what is: smth you dislike. you dont need a morally superior reasoning for your dislike to be legitimate. you can just dislike things yay

and while were at it: fanon is not canon and it doesnt matter how much better you think you know the characters - it doesnt change the fact that its made up in your lil head

#i wish u guys would hear the kind of bs coming from #your mouth #you look stupid #apex legends #apex critical #im begging put some work into yourself #fandom racism #misogynoir #racism in fandom #kds.txt

[is-there-a-filipino-legend-yet]

I think Apex Legends might be dying for good...and that might not be a bad thing.

EA has laid off a lot of employees, and most of the original crew for Apex is gone. There's been TWO major hacks during its entire lifetime, one of which just happened during a tournament recently.

The game is broken, unoptimized, and way more harder for new players to get into.

The new skins and cosmetics and events are very thinly-veiled cash grabs. EA would rather listen to the whales who spend tons and tons of money on the game without thinking twice.

The lore makes no sense anymore. There are more characters than what the current writing team can deal with. Shipping should have never been canonized, and some fandoms are better off with uncanonized popular ships (see: YeeHan Overwatch and HeavyMedic Team Fortress 2)

I want to love Apex. It's introduced me to the first nonbinary character who was a human and not a robot or an alien or a monster. It helped me find great friends. It helped me cope with many dark times. It's just not the way it used to anymore.

#Apex Legends #Apex Critical #banter of legends

[apexlegends-patchnotes]

PATCH NOTE #29

Found bug where ex Respawn senior writer Tom Casiello is listed as "Target of Internet Scorn 2018-present" and rightfully replaced him with this blog's mod <3

#apex legends #apex legends memes #apex critical #patchnotes.txt

[seerofmike]

controversial Apex Pride Month take but

iam. So Tired of hearing mirage lgbt discourse like. as soon as yall accept the writers have been baiting yall this whole time and always intended for him to be straight the sooner yall can stop setting yourselves up for disappointment.

i hate respawn for this and yall keep giving them undue credit for having "questioning rep!!! 😍" while theyve been exploiting mlm fans and baiting their most Popular Guy(tm) as lgbt rep without ever intending to follow through with it. its pride month. we need to hold them accountable and stop giving them brownie points for mirage because they will continue exploiting mlm fans like they have been with characters like fuse and seer by having their attraction to men downplayed or erased entirely.

its been stated multiple times by (albeit former) devs that mirage has been intended as straight and was written as straight this entire time, and the lines about him questioning his sexuality were extremely mean spirited jokes. that is not rep. you and mlm attraction are the butt of a joke to them. stop celebrating respawn+mirage for Nothing.

this same thing applies to wattson x wraith and all it's 'hints', btw, that have been entirely erased in favor of hard-pushing wattson x crypto and to a lesser extent mirage x wraith.

just because apex has rep does not mean it is above baiting you.

#apex legends #apex critical

[unholywriter]

the resemblance is uncanny 👀

apex what you doing bringing old man percy into your game ??

#percy de rolo #the legend of vox machina #vox machina #taliesin jaffe #dnd #critical role #apex legends #old man percy #percival de rolo #percival fredrickstein von musel de rolo iii #ballistic apex legends #august