#but didn’t they kinda have the same deal

[riminiscensce]

TO HOLD ִ ࣪𖤐

Gaming, Heizou, Kaveh, Lyney, Neuvillette, Wriothesley — 🪽

SYNOPSIS … what do they hold on to when you’re gone?

NOTES … been a while :D haven’t posted but randomly started writing for a hq, senku, and heizou series for some reason idk (also i think i kinda drifted away from the original thought when writing)

CONTENTS … sfw , angst , gender neutral reader

GAMING …

gaming holds onto the hair tie you offered him during your early days together. on some occasions, he would leave his place in a hurry and forget about tying his hair back, so you were always there to make sure his hair didn't get in the way of his errands.

he would often get reminded that you weren’t there anymore whenever he would huff a bunch of stray pieces of hair out of his face. ever since you were gone, gaming had started to forget his hair tie back at home; the hair tie you gave him.

the thought of throwing it away and buying a new one always left a bitter taste on his tongue, he would often gaze at it looping around his wrist.

when the day comes that it snaps, gaming wonders if he’s still going to keep it or not, considering that it would’ve lost its purpose by then. or maybe it already had, when you left.

HEIZOU …

runaway pets are one of the many things that heizou does not fancy on handling. on rare occasions, pets are easy to deal with; they’re agile but still predictable and therefore not invincible to the detective.

but god is it annoying when the animal would just not cooperate with him.

though maybe he would give the job more credit, considering that he met you when your pet was on the loose. and heizou realized that maybe (only maybe) tracking down those pesky animals isn’t always a waste of time.

when there was a job up in the station, heizou was always the first to see if it was about your bratty pet. if it wasn’t, he’d leave. if it was, he’d dash towards your place, already having memorized the path needed to get there.

ever since you left, tracking down lost animals returned back to what heizou originally thought of them: a complete waste of time.

KAVEH …

there was this one restaurant you and kaveh would always eat dinner at whenever you two didn’t know what to eat.

instead of arguing and bickering over what to get for dinner, you would have a mutual understanding to go to the same spot instead. be it breakfast, lunch, or dinner, it didn’t matter so long you two had your time together.

if someone were to eat at the same place over and over again, they would have grown sick of eating the same menu every time. kaveh liked to think he wasn’t like that, the food somehow tasted different every time you would have new things to tell him. it was one of the many reasons why he didn’t get sick of the place.

when you are gone, kaveh fears stepping inside the restaurant. he starts to think that he wouldn’t be able to leave when he does.

he forgets the taste of every meal in the place, he forgets how different they would be each day, he simply forgets about the place, and you. or at least he tries to.

LYNEY …

everyone knows wilted flowers don't serve any purpose. lyney knows that they only serve as a reminder of the life they once had.

and the dead flowers that were in his place were indifferent. you always took the time off your day to take care of the plants, changing the waters, and even cleaning the vase from time to time.

but lyney only sees withered echoes of you when he sees the lifeless bundle in the same vase that hasn’t been cleaned ever since you were gone.

he starts to hate parts of himself for it. taking care of a flower seemed easy. he wasn’t even able to take care of the one thing that was left of you in his life. lyney starts to think that the wilted flowers were a reminder that he wouldn’t have been deserving of you.

if you had stayed longer with him, your relationship would have eventually shared a similar fate with the dead flowers.

NEUVILLETTE …

neuvillette’s office never felt empty when you were there. there was a particular seat that you always occupied when you were to visit him. you would sit on it while he sat beside you, sharing your lunch break together.

it went to the point that it started to feel wrong whenever someone else were to sit in your spot. but neuvillette doesn’t make them leave, being so attached to an object doesn’t seem right to him.

but maybe it wasn’t the object he was attached to, it was simply you. he was attached to how you were able to give something special to things that he barely took note of back then.

suddenly, it started to feel even more wrong when your seat was always vacant. maybe because some part of him wishes you would knock so gently on the door and make your way to your favorite spot while inviting him over beside you.

sadly, it never happens. a knock on the door doesn’t mean that you were back. the seat being occupied doesn’t mean that you were the one occupying it.

it just doesn’t mean anything anymore.

WRIOTHESLEY …

wriothesley’s hands were scuffed and scarred, they were brutal in a way that he uses them to defend himself from anything equally dangerous.

ironically, the same rough hands he uses to fight were also the same ones he used to hold you with. to hold something delicate and fragile.

it was the part of him you would always get to hold, gliding over any scars that would meet with your skin. in some part of him, he starts to think that he was also becoming dainty underneath your hold.

the hands that were meant to fight started to hold something that didn’t have anything to do with violence. wriothesley always thinks about that.

it was also the last thing he failed to get rid of in his head when you had gone. what were his violent hands without your subtle touches?

the only thing that wriothesley gets to hold was the complete absence of the air around him.

rimi’s notes

thank u for the support and nice comments i always see :D take care of yourselves 🫶

hearts / reblogs / follows are very much appreciated ★

#genshin impact x reader #genshin x reader #gaming x reader #heizou x reader #kaveh x reader #lyney x reader #neuvillette x reader #wriothesley x reader

[hazbinhappy]

hazbin hotel characters react to reader having bpd??

A/N: hi! i was kinda worried to do this because i am not too well verse on this yet, so i had to do a bit of research on borderline personality disorder (i assume that is what you mean i almost mixed it up with bipolar disorder, but if you meant bipolar i will write for that too!) i assumed you meant the hotel gang too since that is who we see the most!

I kept it mainly platonic and as a group, but it’d be similar if you were to pick any as a romantic partner!

So you’re a sinner and you come to the hotel and you are seeking redemption and you are trying HARD

Charlie, sweet Charlie, somehow has the patience of a saint and is willing to work with you… but she sorta becomes a pleaser just to keep you happy when you get a bit explosive

Which isn’t always the best, but she’d rather take the approach of appeasing you

Angel follows this same path simply due to his own trauma dealing with explosive people

Maybe Lucifer follows this? He seems on the more passive side in my opinion, but with how fast paced the show was we didn’t get to see much of his character

I honestly think Sir Pentious would actually try to avoid you if you’re in a bad mood, but he loves the happy times you two spend together! (Bonus: the egg bois love being with you no matter what :D)

I think Husk and Vaggie would not care about your mood and simply go with the flow or treat you depending on your mood. You have an attitude or are in a bad state? Then you are butting heads with them

But the relationship is still fine it’s like an ocean: the tides come and go but it’s still an ocean

Now Nifty?…. No brain cells. She is somehow always cheery. Just don’t be overly mean then she’s fine!

I saved Alastor for last cause he’s a bitch. Y’know when his fake smile is like super fake and it’s clear he’s annoyed? That’s him when you’re not good. He’s so fucking sassy and snarky.

Now in good moods or normalcy, everything is fine and peachy! Good times!

#hi I’m alive :D #I’ll state again: please lmk if you meant bipolar and not boderline! #hazbin hotel x reader #hazbin hotel #husk x reader #angel dust x reader #alastor x reader #charlie moringstar x reader #vaggie x reader #nifty x reader #sir pentious x reader #lucifer x reader #lucifer Morningstar x reader #ngl I had to like remove the memories I have with dealing with someone with this because it was a trip 😅 but I love them and miss them

[milogreer]

so uhh this is gonna be scatterbrained. but i'm gonna ramble about milo and (what little info we have on) colm. sorry in advance if it doesn’t make sense i just had to exorcise this demon 🫡

i believe "camping with your alpha boyfriend (2021)" is the earliest mention of colm in an audio. obviously we don't actually know milo's side of things because it's told from david's POV, but we still get the mental image of little thirteen year old milo sitting shotgun in his dad's pickup as they drive to their camping spot. gabe's goofing around in the truck bed to make david and asher laugh, and colm joins in the fun by swerving the truck to mess with gabe. very basic dad thing to do, my dad's done the exact same thing to me and my siblings. it feels familiar and silly, and david frames it as a good memory, so it feels like a good memory. which is important to the point of this post

in "celebrating the new house (2022)," we get a little more colm lore:

My dad was forever blowing any cash he made on fucking bets and gambling and shit, chasing some fucking high. My mom was the only reason we didn’t end up out on the fucking street. He didn’t pull his head out of his ass and get some help until after I’d already moved out. So I never got to have that feeling of being in a house that was actually ours, ya know?

already this is a stark contrast to what we've previously heard of colm (i don't think there's any real mention of him between sept 2021 and dec 2022?) and it kinda makes me look at that old memory in a different light, especially with regards to david saying marie was "nagging [colm's] ear off about being irresponsible and a bad example." like. ykwim? like i'm just thinking about that interaction and wondering how far along those problems were at the time, if they were present at all. was this a normal, fun family outing? or would milo have rather been in the truck bed with david, asher, and gabe?

(and the fact that it wasn't until after milo moved out that colm tried getting any help?? i could make a whole other post speculating about milo struggling with wanting to move out of that environment ASAP vs not wanting to leave marie on her own to deal with colm)

so then i'm re-listening to "your werewolf boyfriend is worried about you" and having a visceral reaction to (re-)learning that colm was also an alcoholic:

But what he chose to do with that frustration and that feeling of powerlessness was not his job’s fault, those were his choices. He’s the one who decided to lose himself in booze and gambling and never being home. Never being there for the people he said he loved but apparently couldn’t stand to be around.

the last sentence especially is just an absolute heartbreaker because milo's, what, thirty now? and he's been dealing with this since he was a kid. clearly he's not on great terms with colm. the only times he ever talks about him is when he's shit talking the department. that is a crazy weight for someone to carry their whole life. i don't have experience with the gambling side but i do have an alcoholic family member who i used to be really close to as a kid but grew up to intensely resent as a result of his actions, so it hits a little close to home to see that reflected in milo

but i digress. umm. i bring up the camping story to highlight the most recent mention of colm from milo and how there were good times and sometimes maybe it hurts to remember them when the person involved devastated you as you grew up because they weren't what you thought they were. and how these things follow you through life and impact how you approach certain things. milo has to live with the fact that the same system that royally fucked colm is potentially going to do the same thing to the love of his life; i never drink more than one shot or half a beer, if i drink at all, and i don't like being around drunk people. even though we don't hear about colm very often, his influence is still there whenever milo has to deal with the department in any way

anyway i guess TLDR; imagine living the majority of your thirty years of life feeling like your dad couldn't stand to be around you because he was too busy drinking himself stupid and gambling away every penny he had as a way to deal with the strain that his job put on him. imagine having to witness your mom struggle constantly to keep you cared for. imagine the few good childhood memories you have with your dad being overshadowed by thinking he didn't love you or your mom enough to change. imagine watching the department run your soulmate into the dirt physically and mentally the same way it did your father and wanting to be supportive of them but also being so worried for them. it's a really interesting situation for him to be in and i enjoy it but it hurts me. the end

#one thing about me is that i will gravitate towards characters with alcoholic family members whether i know it or not #redacted audio #redacted asmr #milo greer #sweetheart.txt #milo #colm

[one-1-lobster]

Man, it must’ve been really tough for Lloyd in seasons 4&5 when he literally sees Kai almost get corrupted by the staff and then immediately to have to deal with Morro.

Like Lloyd witnessed Kai fighting for his sanity because he’d internalized the rejection of not being the Green Ninja. And then Lloyd sees that Morro actually did go kinda insane about the exact same thing.

And it’s all for a destiny Lloyd himself never asked for or wanted.

Idk it’s just Lloyd is slammed again and again with the fact that he’s the only one who never wanted to be the Green Ninja, yet he’s the only one who was always supposed to be the Green Ninja. And while that’s probably for a reason, it doesn’t make any of this any easier. Like Kai was so close to succumbing to his jealousy and Lloyd didn’t even know. And then for Lloyd to be tortured by someone was destroyed by that jealousy? Feels like salt in the wound.

Anyway, I’m just saying Lloyd (as always) handled that remarkably well.

#ninjago #ninjago lloyd #ninjago kai #kai jiang #kai smith #lloyd garmadon #lego ninjago #lloyd ninjago #kai ninjago #ninjago tournament of elements

[starbuck]

Obligatory: i am still very delicate. be gentle with me.

#had an actually very traumatizing experience a few days ago and am still having mini breakdowns every few hours when my brain gets too quiet #it was a planned and known experience so i’m Okay. i knew it was going to happen #but that didn’t make dealing with it any easier at the end of the day #kinda feel like i’m never gonna be the same and it’s fucking me up #but it’s OKAY #it’s fine #i’m getting through it - i’m just mildly unstable at the moment #i slept for ten hours yesterday and i feel like i could do it again #so just please be nice to me #not that y’all aren’t - you’re so nice and i love you #just letting y’all know in case i seem a little funny or smth

[embracethemadmess]

Pics of Oscar Isaac channeling his inner Jake Lockley that I found on Pinterest for an inspo for my steven/jake fanfic

Enjoy

Bonus

Jake is a talented guitarist, I won’t take any criticism in that statement.

#you cannot tell me this is not basically jake if the stupid pigeon didn’t tricked marc and steven #oscar babe we love you #yes will not shut up about mk until I get season two #and then I’m gonna scream about season two #deal with it #also I needed distraction from the fact the only way for the fic I have in mind to work is to make Marc make kinda a dick move okay #and not the fun and dirty one #oscar isaac hernandez estrada #moon knight #jake lockley #he looks so handsome in flat hats #well it’s probably the same one in every pic but never mind #mcu look at this this is what we want #give us Jake Lockley in season two #or better yet a whole Jake Lockley spin off #you cowards

[casualhedonists]

my friend keeps reposting taylor swift hate and i’m like. girl it’s fine you don’t like her but the way you’re always posting about it irks me

#tell me if i’m alone in this but. it’s just weird to me #as an example here’s this #like i’m not a sports girly myself #but as i gonna go traipse around the internet saying football sucks?? no? bc i have better uses of my time #am* #like last time i saw this same friend we were hanging out at her house and we were watching f1 bc she loves f1 #i don’t care for f1 but i also didn’t throw a hissy fit i was like. oh fun a new learning opportunity #and i’m not gonna go on an internet rampage about how i feel kinda meh about sports #bc. i just have much better things to do with my time?? #also it’s just not that deep #i love my friend don’t get me wrong but. sometimes this one thing grates on me #if you don’t like something or you’re indifferent to it? fine but why make it this massive deal?? also every time i mention taylor she goes #oh yeah i’m not a fan kinda hate her and her music #EVERY time. like. it’s not necessary #just a hint of altruism. patience. tolerance. it doesn’t hurt #｡･:*˚:✧｡ mimi speaks! #starting to think i need a vent tag atp

[raeathnos]

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#called about the medical bill and what I got told made no fucking sense #‘you paid what you had on the payment plan off already and this is a new bill’ #which it’s not it’s the same one that’s been there since November #regardless they said it could be added to a payment plan in a few days #but that also doesn’t make sense #I guess I’m gonna wait till Friday cause that’s when I get paid #and then if it’s still not letting me add it to the payment plan I’m gonna just pay it off #the person I talked to wasn’t helpful and was kinda mean #the second I was like ‘are you sure it’s new? I had that exact balance left after the $2k bill’ #they got an attitude with me #I wasn’t mean about it I just had questions cause I wanted to understand and not get in trouble for a late bill #and I could tell they didn’t want to deal with me and also thought that I was stupid #like you know when someone thinks your dumb so they talk real slow? 🙃 #I have so much anxiety about phone calls this wasn’t fun 🫠 #and I don’t really feel all that confident about the bill either #I know it’s their job I know they can see more than I can on my end #but how is it a new bill if I had the exact same amount on a payment plan at that start of the month? #and also the exact same amount after I paid off the $2000 bill after Christmas? #doesn’t add up to me

[heybaetae]

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#sent my mom those bts x harry photos this morning thinking she’d find it cool #since she likes harry #but she literally just. didn’t care and it kind of hurt bc it’s such a huge deal for me #to see him and the boys in the same frame #i thought i’d get some kind of reaction and i just didn’t #so i felt kinda shitty about it #but then my younger sister came over and she came in my room to look around #and started asking me questions about bts while looking at my pc collection #and then she let me pretty much give her a two hour crash course on bts #while asking questions and letting me show her music videos while she tried to study their names/faces better #and it made me feel good bc i never have anyone around to talk to them about out loud in detail #or rave about them with or anything bc my parents don’t careeee so i suppress it all #and i literally said to her ‘i never get to talk about them’ so she just. let me #mind you my sister and i butted heads so much when we were younger bc we’re so close in age #we have very different music tastes #she will likely never stan bts and that’s FINEEE lol #but it’s nice that she respects my love for them and has even gifted me things/merch and keeps her eyes open for things #knowing how much they mean to me #she’s the only one in my family who really supports it without any weird resistance or fakeness like my parents do #even if they do sometimes try to show interest i know it’s not that genuine #anyway long post just feeling nice that my sister cared about the most important thing in my life even just for a little bit

[goldensunset]

‘a long time ago, there was a boy named cyrus who lived here. he seemed to shun others, and he preferred the company of machines. he was a brilliant student, i recall. i often wonder what became of him.’ ya he’s doing great!!!

#this is ‘i wonder what volo from the ginkgo guild is up to these days?’ all over again #except that is a genuine question bc who knows what he walked off to do after that #cyrus though.. yeah my man is hanging out in the distortion world still trying in vain to pull off his villainous scheme #which. man it kinda hits harder bc i suppose you can read into it that he hated his own emotions and wanted to not have to deal with them #volo didn’t specify what his problems were (although you could also read into it and say he wanted the celestica people back #like to reconnect with his lost culture) #or it could be the same thing. just wanting to shut his emotions out #he mentioned some ambiguous hardships #who knows #peach plays pokémon platinum #anyway i’m gonna go get clapped by volkner

[unintentional-sad-wizard]

Worried that my health stuff might be acting up again augh

#PLEASE I don’t want another several weeks of this #I’m feeling super low energy and brain foggy and generally shitty #which makes me anxious because that’s usually how it starts when my symptoms start getting worse again #I’m crossing my fingers that this is just because I’m on my cycle or because I ate fast food today #for the first time in a while #and that it’s not the same health stuff I had going on for the last couple months #but I’m worried #we never figured out what was going on with me and it went away after a couple months #and I’ve been way better lately but the past week or so I’ve been feeling gradually worse and have been really low energy #I do have an appointment on Monday I think to redo some blood tests and stuff #but the first two times they ran those tests they didn’t find anything wrong even though my symptoms were awful #so if it is coming back I kinda doubt that this time will reveal anything #but maybe this will convince them to do other tests or refer me to a specialist or something #At least I’m taking fewer classes this term #so I won’t have quite as much stuff to balance #but money is tight because of how much work I missed last term so I can’t afford to miss a lot more #and I’m supposed to start volunteering at an animal shelter in a couple weeks which I’m really looking forward to #and I’ve been planning to get a dog soon-ish #and I would hate hate hate to have to postpone any of that stuff even more #and I just. can’t keep dealing with this. I hate being sick I hate not being able to do things I’m tired of it #I’m trying not to spiral or worry too much because anxiety definitely makes me feel worse lol #and this could be nothing it could be unrelated to whatever health issues I was having earlier #but it makes me nervous #the being of chaos speaks

[cruel-summerxy]

I’ve been going to intern at a dentist as a DA all week. Today was the longest day I was in there and as soon as I got out I got bad news. The crazy part is that my sisters had to let me know before my parents bc they know I break down crying and my parents always feel bad for me.

#so basically my cousin died this morning #and my whole family knows that I don’t deal well with death #it’s so crazy bc she was like in her late 20s #when I was like 10-14 we would go see her and the family every weekend and we hadn’t seen each other in like 5 years #she came over last summer but I had my first day off in a while so I decided to be in my room #these things always happen #it’s crazy bc when her grandma died 7 years before I did the same thing #the last time she came over I just didn’t want to be around them so I pretended to be sick #and then she died #and last year my parent had gone to visit my uncle but me and my younger sister decided not to go #and then he died #I always feel so bad bc you truly never when it’s going to be the last time you see somebody but I somehow always fuck yo the last time we #see them #this shit really weighs on me #but how tf am I supposed to know #it’s kinda like that one quote thingy in here that says I hope you could have a sign or something for when the last time you’re going to see #somebody #regardless of if they’re dying or you just won’t see them again #anywho #sorry for being annoying #liz #liz talks

[imaginarypasta]

one of the things i’ve noticed that changes between this series and the last is the newfound emphasis on diplomacy & decorum. i do understand why, both in how the narrative changes w the introduction of new ideas and frameworks as well as how it might want to adapt to have its own voice, themes, etc. but gone are the days of yes-anding oneself into strange situations and in are those of yet another scene highlighting the importance of a letter of introduction—and that was personally a huge reason why i liked the original series so much. i don’t even mind like diplomacy as a narrative device when it’s equipped in interesting ways but when it’s constant introductions to new characters that go relatively similarly every time & a very clear narrative voice insisting that original solution wouldn’t work when it’s 1. more interesting to me personally and 2. not even working any better practically, then that starts to get super boring

#personal #even when i was a middle schooler reading these books i was never much a fan of the roman camp but i just didn’t have the skills or words #to put together why. i think a lot of it comes from this. because i certainly enjoy the characters a lot but this aspect just makes them #very boring to read about. i’m invested in the characters’ emotional lives but when it comes to practical stakes i find it draining & dull #which i want to emphasize is not my natural response to these things being present. it’s these specific characters in this specific world #written by this specific author that makes it not really my thing in this instance #bc stuff like political intrigue is probably my favorite type of conflict (besides like deep personal ones) and yet i’m SO picky in how it’s #done and so the stuff i like i really like #but it’s also very hard to come by #that’s not the only reason i struggle with it. i think esp coming into the third book (i’m a little under halfway through) #that it’s a bunch of things: the huge cast that sticks with us the whole time (i do like how they’re constantly broken into smaller quests #like i think that’s well done but it’s just so many characters to deal with for so long) #the rotating perspective. the emphasis on relationships (and how that’s framed w/i the text. shadow & bone s2 did something really similar #to this). etc. but yeah. in good news: the writing is much improved from tlh even for the characters i really didn’t likes’ perspective #chapters. i do think the way the cast is broken up is good and so is the conflicts between them (with some exceptions. insecurity in #relationships is kinda boring to me but so are ships in general so that’s not a surprise). there are still characters i don’t like but they #are much improved by this book (although you can basically figure out which ones i like vs. don’t based on which book they first appeared in #in this series). #so yeah that’s my review so far :p we’ll see if i stick with it because i remember not really enjoying the next two books either when i #first read them. but my tastes have changed a lot (i say. keeping nearly my exact same rankings thus far)

[permanentreverie]

will i ever have a birthday that i don’t hate with my entire soul

#my birthdays on thursday and im actually dreading it so much #i want to cry #idk if it’s a self inflicted complex cause it’s so close to christmas that i’m sure it’s not important #but i’m hating it so much i don’t want to deal with it #not the fact i’m turning older - i’ll be glad to be done with this year and all of the hurt it’s caused me #but i have no friends i have nothing planned #and unfortunately my mother is not working that day so she’ll be home #and like she wants to go bowling with my siblings and out to dinner #and i don’t want to do any of that stuff #i’ve just consented to dinner #but i’m not even close with my siblings being around them gives me anxiety i don’t want to deal with this #i hate being the center of attention i hate things being about me #idk what’s wrong with me #i’ll delete this in the morning it’s just past midnight rn and i’m crying about it #idk if it’s stress related to other stuff at the moment but i just want out i don’t want to be living here #i feel so awkward on my birthday and i don’t want my mom to try and make it anything special #but at the same time #last year i did nothing and was in my room for 4 hours #and i kinda didn’t want to do that this year. i DID want to do something #but now as the day gets closer i just feel more and more dread

[ifeelfreewithoutmyshoes]

My new class has other queer people!!

#one is this pretty flamboyant guy so that was fairly obvious #and he works at the local gay bar so when he left today he was like come see me #and me and another girl went oh some other day #and then she went yeah I have to bc I’m not used to there being a community like this for me #and I went oh yeah me too (especially as we’re from the same town) #so I kinda went over to her when he left and went okay soooo #what’s the deal here?:) #she’s pan apparently and when I told her I was aroace she was about to say smt about having considered that #but we got interrupted and it didn’t come up again #aaaand there’s this other girl that I kinda think might be into girls but I’m not really sure #but still very nice!! #me

[impossible-rat-babies]

one day I’ll do a personal ranking of the relic grinds

#depending on how bad eureka and bozja are they might be up there #but I don’t think anything thus far tops how Insufferable the ARR relic grinds are #truly those ones are the worst of the bunch #like from worst to best thus far it’s like ARR -> eureka/bozja -> HW #tbh the bozja grind has been more annoying than the eureka one #eureka is fun! i do enjoy eureka a good deal #i know bozja is set up the same way as eureka of doing a weapon along w the plot #but getting the stuff for bozja is so dogshit outside of bozja #i don’t like how it’s more productive to do the weapon outside of bozja rather than inside of bozja #the HW relics are so easy—the grind is still there at parts but it’s honestly not Bad #there’s a reason I almost have almost three HW relics and it’s bc….they Easy #the manderville relics rn are just kinda not that bad? it’s tombstones which is fine I like that #the biggest commitment with them is if you didn’t do any manderville and have to go do all of that first #which…tbh turning ur brain off and realizing there are zero stakes makes manderville fun #the ARR ones are very good the HW ones are a delight the stormblood ones kinda blow and the ShB + EW ones go back to what made ARR #manderville so much fun #if anyone asks for fucking books again in relic grind I am going to feed them their own toenail clipppngs