#but i like pyra

[alinalal-art]

Swimsuit Pyra

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#i cant draw her normal outfit my apologies i find it ugly #but i like pyra #shes cute #xenoblade chronicles 2 #xenoblade 2 #xenoblade #art #fanart #anime #anime art #illustration #digital art #pyra #mythra #xb2 #nintendo #drawing #painting #anime fanart #gaming

[ritoryb]

THE TOMORROW WITH YOU

#xenoblade chronicles 2 #nia #rex #pyra #mythra #sniffles... xenoblabde cfdkjfhrobnicle..2... #BWAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH #actually paid attention to composition this time are u proud of me. [visibly in tears for unrelated reasons] #'xc2 isnt a game you normally cry about' not true! xenoblade chronicle 2 is proof that love is real #my drawing #also pay no attention to how fast im playing theis series i have no time management skills #i literally just wanted to doodle something and then i was like oh this might be good. [it ends up like this]

[lord-squiggletits]

One of my favorite parts of phase 2 (and indeed one of the few moments I resonated with IDW Prowl) was when the neutrals were coming back to Cybertron and Prowl said that he refused to let Autobots be pushed aside and overruled after they were the ones who fought for freedom for 4 million years (the exact wording escapes me atm).

And I mean, that resentment still holds true even once the colonists come on bc like. As much as it's true that Cybertron's culture is fucked up, and as funny as it can be to paint Cybertronians as a bunch of weirdos who consider trying to kill someone as a common greeting not important enough to hold a grudge over.... The colonists POV kind of pissed me off a lot of times, as did the narrative tone/implications that Cybertronians are forever warlike and doomed to die by their own hands bc it just strikes me as an extremely judgemental and unsympathetic way to deal with a huge group of people with massive war PTSD and political/social tensions that were rampant even before the war?

Like, imagine living in a society rife with bigotry and discrimination where you get locked into certain occupations and social strata based on how you were born. The political tension is so bad there's a string of assassinations of politicians and leaders. The whole planet erupts into an outright war that leads (even unintentionally) to famine and chemical/biological warfare that destroys your planet. Both sides of the war are so entrenched in their pre-war sides and resentment for each other that this war lasts 4 million years and you don't even have a home planet any more. Then your home planet gets restored and a bunch of sheltered fucks come home and go "ewww why are you so violent?? You're a bunch of freaks just go live in the wilderness so that our home can belong to The Pure People Who Weren't Stupid And Evil Enough To Be Trapped In War" and then a bunch of colonists from places that know nothing about your history go "lol you people are so weird?? 🤣🤣 I don't get why y'all are fighting can't you just like, stop??? Oh okay you people are just fucked up and evil and stupid then" ((their planets are based on colonialism where their Primes wiped out the native populations btw whereas the Autobots and OP in particular fought to save organics. But that never gets brought up as a point in their favor)) as if the damage of a lifetime of war and a society that was broken even before the war can just magically go away now that the war is over.

Prowl fucking sucks but he was basically the only person that pointed out the injustice of that.

And then from then on out most of the characters from other colonies like Caminus and wherever else are going "i fucking hate you and your conflicts" w/ people like literal-nobody Slide and various Camiens getting to just sit there lecturing Optimus about how Cybertronians are too violent for their own good and how their conflicts are stupid, with only brief sympathetic moments where the Cybertronians get to be recognized as their own ppl who deserve sympathy before going right back to being lambasted.

Like I literally struggled to enjoy the story at multiple points because there was only so much I could take of the characters I knew and loved being raked over coals constantly while barely getting to defend themselves or be defended by the narrative so like. It was just fucking depressing and a little infuriating to read exRID/OP

#squiggposting #and like dont get me wrong barber wasnt trying to make cybertronians the bad guys or whatever #it's just a problem with his writing where like. he has A Message he wants to send #and so he uses the entire story literally just for The Message even if it involves bullshit plotlines #or familiar characters ppl were reading about for the past decade being shit on by OCs made up to fill a new roster #like barber's writing tends to lean way too much on a sort of lecturing tone #without giving proper care towards including moments where characters get to like. fucking express themselves and share their side #sort of like how barber couldnt be bothered to write pyra magna and optimus actually talking to each other during exrid #and instead during OP ongoing pyra is suddenly screaming about how OP is unteachable #even tho she never even tried to teach him bc she and OP never interacted bc i guess barber couldnt be bothered #he just needed someone to lecture OP so fuck making the story make sense or like letting OP get to say anything in defense #this is the infuriating part of barber's writing bc i think he has incredible IDEAS and was in charge of the lore i was most interested in #but most of the time his execution sucks and he's basically just mid with a few brilliant moments occasionally #or like he has a message about the cycle of violence he wants to convey #but his narrative choices trying to convey that theme made his story come off as super unsympathetic to the ppl who suffered #to the point where barber actively kneecapped some scenes that couldve been super fucking intense and emotional #in favor of the characters lecturing each other or some stupid plot to criticize OP #that time in unicron where windblade screamed about how this is their fault and then arcee replied that her planet is build on coloniation #shouldve happened more often than literally the last series of the ocntinuity. like goddamn stfu about your moral superiority #when your own sins are right fhere lol

[pyramidofmice]

thinking about autism and Herbert West and damn that man has a strong sense of justice. Disrupting class because he believes the teacher isn't respecting the principles of scientific study; How absolutely devastated he is when he sees Dr Hill stole his research (my woooork!! 😭); etc etc. This man can watch horrendous violence unfold right in front of him and not bat an eye, but if he read an article about an important research project getting cancelled because of underfunding he'd be screaming crying throwing up

#reanimator #herbert west #pyra speaks #reanimator headcanons #I'm imagining Herbert at a town hall or something and some guy who's responsible for the underfunding says his piece #and then Herbert stands up -- very orderly and all -- but is just like 'i hope Hell is real so you can burn there' JGSJTS

[mewkwota]

“Okay you have any questions?”

“Yeah... can you step over a bit?”

“Why? Can’t you see everything?”

I said I’d do it, so here’s the full-proper version of that family tree Glimmer was sharing in an earlier comic. Yes this will be updated when Baby #3 gets namedropped... whoever they are.

Also I only omitted whoever else is associated with Houses Rhodes and Doyle to save my brain and canvas space, as well as Rex’s parents, and Nia’s father and sister as they do not have actual images to refer to. (Otherwise yeah I remember they exist, don’t prod me.)

Deviantart Upload Here

#and this was going to be too hard to display without racking my brain even more #but it should go without saying that pyra-n-mythra would also have lines connecting to nia #but like-- to keep it simple those lines are shown to lead to each kid #as for m and n glimmer had no idea where to put them #(the real reason is because I needed someone to fill the negative space down there-- thanks malos :) ) #Mew's Art #xenoblade chronicles #xenoblade 3 spoilers #(if you ask me if I'll do this with glimmer I wanna wait for her other sibling-- pls where are they) #klaus #addam #corrin #azurda #jin #malos #a #mythra #pyra #rex #nia #dromarch #mio #noah #ghondor #matthew #na'el #how the heck do you tag m and n--

[deus-and-the-machina]

its not deeply touched upon in game besides a couple of lines but I constantly think about the scene where after mythra first awakens and turns back into pyra after voicing her frustration and pyra goes "that's not fair..." and how pyra constantly has to deal with the weight of a history and crimes that are just a distant memory to her, one she didnt even technically live through.

She doesn't even deny it whenever the people in game say that the Aegis sunk three continents, because what does it matter if she sunk one or three? the guilt still weighs (and interesting to think about how mentions of "aegises" probably conflated into just one aegis overtime + indol wanting to cover up what they did to spessia. in general people in 2 seem a bit hazy on the details of the war)

And obviously pyra and mythra, being the same person, know their pain very well and would understand the other intimately, but I do think its a shame that it wasn't explored that pyra might have some feelings about having been created as a coping mechanism and dealing with the fallout of things she didnt do and doesnt fully remember in mythra's stead. add onto the fact she's the weaker of the two, and I imagine pyra must have so many confusing emotions of inferiority and frustration about her entire existence. she isnt the aegis that can take out whole continents, but she's not the aegis who's the most useful to her friends and comrades either. and the scene where she forcefully takes control of siren is sooooo juicy in the context of this. anyways yeah

#I might write a fic exploring smith like this but I have no idea how id go about that ngl #xenoblade #xenoblade chronicles #pyra

[tornadoarts]

Mythra timeskip design to go along with pyra! I do like to think the four of them still run the garfont mercs especially before Nia became queen.

#she has a hood like pyra! #I just didn’t include it in her sheet #artwork #art #animation #anime #procreate #xenoblade #Mythra #Mythra Xenoblade #Nintendo #monolith soft

[kentucky-the-fried]

They’re gay your honor,

#xenoblade #Xenoblade 2 #Xenoblade chronicles 2 #Xenoblade 2 fanart #Xenoblade fanart #fanart #Pyra #Nia #Xenoblade 2 spoilers #someone on Twitter actually told me this piece was “strange #because they didn’t like my style and were used to more “anime proportions” #and that really soured my love of this piece for a long time #especially when it all came out of the blue #no prompt for criticism to begin with #that guy’s blocked now lmao (they’re freaky about collecting Nia/Mio/Nael fanart so if you know you know) #anyways I hope everyone here enjoys it at least ;-;

[do-you-know-this-queer-character]

Do you know these queer characters?

Pyra & Mythra are Polyamorous and WLW and both use she/her pronouns!

#this is a weird one. I don't post multiple characters in the same submission usually but in this case... #they were submitted together and I think it makes the most sense as they share a body. also they date a woman i think #if people want them separate though I can post them separate instead. I don't want to offend anyone. #Also don't expect multiple character posts to become a thing ever lol it's reserved for very specific cases like this #pyra xenoblade #pyra xc2 #mythra xenoblade #mythra xc2 #pyra and mythra #xenoblade 2 #xenoblade chronicles #xenoblade chronicles 2 #xc2 #fandom polls #tumblr polls #poll #polyamorous #she/her #wlw #video game #lgbtqia #do you know this queer character

[not-a-font]

So I've just recently watched Arcane, and it's an absolute banger of a show. 10/10 would recommend.

A part of why I think it's good it because it's doesn't really have heros and villains in the conventional sense. All the "villainous" characters have clear motivations, and the narrative highlights the ways they justify their own actions in a way that frames them as understandable even if they are undeniably wrong.

That is... With two not-so-notable exceptions.

These two assholes, whose names I completely forgot and had to look up.

These two are some of the few characters framed as completely and totally unsympathetic. This is very intentional because each one is meant to exemplify what exactly is wrong with the place they help lord over.

For Piltover, the story presents it as an elitist society full of decadence that doesn't care for anything except for it's own economic expansion.

Of the main characters that could exemplify this, there's Jayce, who's actually a pretty decent guy who wants to use science to improve lives but gets stuck in the politics of it all. There's also Mel, who at first seems to be the very pinnacle of an ambitious corrupt politician, only for the story to juxtapose her with her war mongering mother and have her start a relationship with Jayce, which rounds her character and also paints her as sympathetic.

So when all your main characters to complex to properly convey to the audience the problems of your society, you have to show it off through the side characters. Hence, we have Hoskel (that I originally misspelled as Holdaak for some reason lol)

Hoskel is in no way sympathetic. He's fat and greedy and stupid. Mel gives him a children's toy and he's still trying to solve it six years later. When there's a crisis, his first concern is his wine shipments. He's everything wrong with Piltover, so when the audience is done being captivated by the compelling characters, they can look at Holdaak and go "ah yes, this is why the poor is repressed and the government is completely corrupt."

Same goes for Zaun. It's hard to use Silco as a way to represent all the problems with Zaun because the audience is too focused on his compelling relationship with Jinx. Yes he's a kingpin controlling the masses with drugs, but the audience can see how he got there, and right now he cares more about Jinx than his own power.

Meanwhile we have Finn, a lesser kingpin complicit in Silco's regime and actively riding off of his coat tails for the sake of his own power. He's dissociated with the plight the average Zaun denizen to the point that he can't even breath the same air as them without choking on the ground.

When the audience is wondering why Zaun is so much worse after Silco took over, they can look at that guy and go, "ah yes, it's because people like this guy are benefitting from the addicted masses."

#arcane #arcane analysis #arcane silco #arcane mel #arcane jayce #zaun #piltover #first time doing the thing where you make an actual analysis instead of ranting incoherently #hope i did well #anyways i just love arcane and it's foils #literally everything and everyone is a foil #goes very well with the two city narrative #also both holdaak and Finn are totally under the thumb of the better character (Mel/Silco) #but for holdaak its willingly but for Finn it's because he can't do anything about #also mel giving holdaak a children's toy amd him keeping onto it for so long is really funny for me #Mel was like: lol he's to dumb for a 3x3 let's just give him a pyra-mix

[espadagalaxia]

I've seen plenty of people talking about how Na'el looks like Beta Nia but has anyone addressed this

#future redeemed #glimmer xenoblade #beta pyra #i hope they dont actually address this in game or ill look like a big idiot :D

[mirensiart]

wow i really do love pyra/nia and mythra/nia

best xenoblade ships

i am making this text completely unprompted and not cause a very sad pathetic without friends and unemployed anon that projects themselves over rex is very insecure over seeing people shipping girls together sent me hate via ask once again lmao

anyway i love mythra nia and pyra my favorite lesbians

#every time u send me hate anon i will respond by loveposting about nia/pyra and mythra/nia lol #i don't even care about xc2 apart from addam xenoblade but u brought this upon urself #i never even made fanart of them but u know what #i might even start drawing them #congrats anon u actually made me a shipper lmao #if ur goal was for MORE mythra/nia and pyra/nia content to exist then GOOD FOR U i will start making it u made me a shipper #i liked them but didn't feel anything about it #but ur constant non stop asks for MONTHS has made me ship them for real OUT OF SPITE #keep sending asks i will draw or love post in retaliation #if u stop i stop

[sinonlesbiantruther]

Xenoblade 3 artbook is crazy because on the one hand you've got really cool lore drops or info that makes the vision clearer.

And on the other I've got the mental image of Vandam Xenoblade 2 teaching Mythra the secret to getting a trans girl pregnant.

#Xenoblade #Xenoblade 3 #Xenoblade Spoilers #Nia #Mio #Mythra #seriously funny to me that there was a debate in my friend group when i brought up Sena's parents likely being Mòrag and Brighid #if i said my thoughts about the situationship between Rex Pyra Mythra and Nia out loud my bi guy friend would explode #like how else are you meant to take Mio pneuma core crystal concept art #your honour Nia and Mythra fucked nasty and i can prove it

[lord-squiggletits]

I need to reread the comics again to have specific arguments/evidence for this, but like

I feel a bit like I could've been sympathetic to the way other Cybertronian colonies view Cybertron, if it weren't for the fact that at least several of them (as in, ones that get notable dialogue/screen time) are so low-key self-righteous?

Like, idk... there's a lot of criticism of Cybertronians because they're so "warlike" and how their obsession with violence and vengeance is just dragging the whole galaxy down with them, but uh. The Autobot-Decepticon war was basically a product of societal ills bubbling over for like 6 million years beforehand and then finally boiling over into a 4 million year war that lasted as long as it did because the people involved had immense social/psychological trauma from being "raised" in an oppressive society.

So when the colonists come in being all 'omg you people are so violent and uncivilized why don't you just like, stop fighting' it kind of pissed me off a little bit as a reader/person like. Idk the colonists really came into this society of people full of massive amounts of trauma where even before the war society was super oppressive and no one has any experience of living "normal" lives unaffected by violence and bigotry. And the colonists were like "ummm wow why don't you guys just??? stop fighting???." Like idk it wasn't EVERY SINGLE MOMENT, in fact I think that when it was played for laughs it's quite a funny "fridge horror" type element. It was just annoying because like.... IDK???? It's just really annoying to watch a bunch of people who lived relatively sheltered lives on their own planets come to a different planet full of traumatized people and be like "omg why are you people so fucked up" IDK BRO MAYBE BECAUSE THEIR SOCIETY WAS OPPRESSIVE AND THEY LIVED THROUGH A LIFELONG WAR???

It also doesn't help that the colonies were literally founded based on imperialism and conquest so like, it's fucking rich to hear colonists scolding Cybertronians for their violence ruining the whole galaxy while literally sitting on planets that their Primes colonized from others. The hypocrisy of this is briefly mentioned in Unicron (literally the FINAL STORY OF THE SERIES) but like, that's basically the only time Cybertronian characters are given a reprieve of sympathy from other characters in universe and it's so tiresome.

I've talked to other people who didn't like the colonists and thought they basically (narratively speaking) existed just to shit on the existing characters, and it's actually really easy for me to sympathize with/outright agree with that assessment of the story considering how much of exRID/OP seems to be preoccupied with "Cybertron/the Primes/Optimus sucks" with very few reprieves for anything positive happening and even fewer chances for characters to get to explain themselves and experience a little bit of justice? Like, as the audience, it's just very frustrating to see the characters you spent hundreds of issues keeping up with get shit on by a bunch of "literally-who"s and then not really get a chance to ever defend themselves, either by literally defending themselves in conversation or having some sort of narrative thing happening that vindicates them at least symbolically

#squiggposting #paused work to muse about this which i prolly shouldn't have lol #oh well i'll still get stuff done #like idk an example of this is how pyra criticized OP for using religion to manipulate people #(lets just ignore how she said she would teach OP but never actually did) #but in the story there's never any sort of confrontation where pyra learns about history or talks with OP #and OP gets to be like. yeah on my planet primes fucking sucked and i'm the only one trying to redeem their image #also ive been fighting an endless war that lasted 4 mil years in which me being a shining figurehead was basically #the sole motivating force keeping my army from just collectively succumbing to endless despair #and i also had to use this shining figurehead image i had to keep the opposing army from genociding a bunch of organics #like not once does OP get to express his side of things he's basically just shit upon endlessly by other characters as he keeps doing plot #i feel like i had another example but i can't recall who/what was involved lmao #like idk it's not just that barber's writing is depressing and dark and edgy. i LIKE stories that do that kind of thing #it's just that it feels a bit as if the story is ENDLESSLY depressing and dark and edgy with almost no reprieve #as if it's mostly presenting the flaws of the characters with no chance for them to justify or redeem themselves #idk i feel like there was another better point/example i was gonna make but i can't remember it #like idk i guess a dark depressing story would've been better if the characters at least got to defend themselves #bc as is it basically feels like they (esp OP) get shit on endlessly and never once get to express anything about it #so like. they get shit on in universe. but also as the reader since there's never a contradicting viewpoint or the character defending them #it's as if you're supposed to take this one-sided criticism of them at face value and it just doesn't seem fair AS THE READER #if i read about OP getting shit on by some people and defended by others and also him expressing his opinion on himself #then that just feels like a normal fair narrative where i get to take sides #but if it's just OP being shit on and he hardly expresses much about it #then it feels like i as the reader am expected to agree with the portrayal being shown? #but in reality the portrayal just feels negative and unfair and one sided to me #and why the fuck do i want to read a story that's just the characters i know and like on an endless shame parade #also shout out to 'literally who' aka slide calling OP 'literally fascist' lmao #one of the most cringe moments of the entire comic. wait no. i can think of a more cringe Slide Moment #when unicron is about to destroy the planet and trypticon is getting shot and dying(?) in the background #and the story decides to pause and focus on Slide so she can monologue about how evil and tyrannical OP is

[silent-partner-412]

a lot of the blade designs in xenoblade 2 are ridiculously sexualized and there’s a conversation to be had about that and what the game is saying by including all those designs. but the thing that’s worse to me is that many of them just look Bad. Dumb. Goofy. like Why would you design a character like that and demand i take it seriously.

#xenoblade #xenoblade chronicles #xenoblade 2 #xenoblade chronicles 2 #without fail every time i play this game #it takes until like chapter 4 for me to readjust to pyra’s design #and i to this day still find mythra’s design jarring and always give her the massive melee mythra to hide it #not to mention the plethora of bad gacha blade designs #and the sexualization isn’t even the whole problem #like rex himself looks really goofy until he gets his redesign #there’s so many different art styles used for the characters in this game and they all clash #the whole thing just reeks of lack of polish #this is all stuff that easily could’ve been avoided if the game just had more time #it’s such a shame honestly

[mercyking]

Sometimes...I live in a world where Gary King and Nicholas Angel are cousins.

And sometimes...SOMETIMES...Nicholas' uncle Derek is Gary's dad.

#This gets complicated if Derek is Nicholas' uncle via his father. Cuz then his last name would likely be Angel--not King #The wiki says he's Nick's dad's brother but i cant recall. and my rental of the movie ran out so :/ #I think it would be neato if for some reason or another Garys mom was like 'eh fuck this Derek guy' and gave Gary her own last name instead #all that said i have so many ideas about Gary's parents and i dont want to commit to any of them. go stupid go crazy as they say #pyra speaks #gary king #nicholas angel #Honestly imagine the drama of Nicholas being older than Gary so the whole arrest thing happened when Nick was a kiddo and thus Gary was BAB #maybe not even born yet #and then Derek gets arrested and then just fuckin yeets out of his old life #so Nicholas is Gary's older cousin who not only knew Gary's dad better than he ever got to but is also sooo ffing successful #Heehee i think that dynamic would be NUTS. heh #Saying this as if most of my thoughts for this au aren't fluff about Gary recovering and visiting his kind+supportive cousin in Sanford #twe #hot fuzz #twe au #hf au #cornetto trilogy