#i am just. obsessed with postgame. and. well.

[mars-ipan]

happy early discount chocolate day

#martzipan #ok tags time #hajime hinata #chiaki nanami #nagito komaeda #komahina #komanami #hinanami #komahinanami #feel free to use or whatevs. happy valentine's day #i love these little idiots. chiaki i'm sorry girlie i do not draw you enough #which is criminal bc she has the best color scheme out of the three of them #i am just. obsessed with postgame. and. well. #i will make it up to you gamer girl. chiaki is so good #also once again pushing my propaganda. they r t4t4t to me. one transmasc and two transfems what will they do #OH SHIT ALMOST FORGOT #tw blood #i'm so used to beating up komaeda that i like. forget he's bleeding half the time

[hamofjustice]

it's nice that we're getting anything i guess, but, i'm gonna be what may come off as a little petty and whiny here; it'd be cool if either iteration of the gen 9 anime so far was actually about gen 9's characters instead of using them as cameos to promote original stories we have no investment in yet

it's like, i dunno, like the bait and switch with sonic appearing in wreck it ralph ads, except if wreck it ralph existing meant there would never be a sonic movie, and if you were invested in those characters and recognized they weren't generic platformer mascots, sucks for you, nobody cares

maybe they're just giving the DLC space to do its thing with them first (if they do anything at all...) but idk, i was cautiously optimistic about nemona in horizons, only for her to be a character of the day that the episode wasn't about, and pretty excited by "gen 9 prequel anime" only to find out it's going to be like, four short stories about OCs who have quick brushes with them. these are like the lacroix hint of what an anime about the game could've been like and you're left to imagine the rest yourself

i shouldn't be that surprised if the gen 8 anime reduced hero of galar hop to a character of the day with a level 5 wooloo in order to let the galaxy revolve around ash battling his brother because epic charizards, but man. what if it wasn't like that that now that ash is gone.

we haven't seen penny and team star at all because they're the hardest to talk about without bringing up the trauma of school bullying and the fear of being yourself at school when you're way too young to be dealing with all that drama responsibly. she's still learning to love and forgive herself and feel wanted.

arven's story is about, like, being a latchkey kid to a self-absorbed parent, being unsure how to feel about repairing the relationship or how seriously to take them saying they love him, and struggling to make friends due to misdirected resentment toward people he's jealous of for having apparently normal families and the stubborn self-reliance he was forced into. he's still trying to process things, find himself, and let people in.

nemona is supposed to have been a directionless lonely and depressed kid who hated being called gifted when everything was hard for her, until she met the player character and gained a peer who understood and appreciated she was a little different and she didn't have to mask her true self to have friends anymore. she's happy for now, but may still be under a little too much pressure to be perfect at the expense of her own personality, and probably won't deal well with being abandoned.

as much as they resonate with adults and are a little darker than usual pokemon fare, they're also smaller scale and realer. they are all stories that are explicitly about and meant to be relatable to kids going to school! y'know, your audience! you don't need to paint over them with 3-4 new characters and new stories every time like there was nothing there, or something shameful you need to sanitize and cover up! you can just use the game the way it is!

this got a little more heated than i intended, i just feel a little ridiculous waiting anxiously for loose scraps of a sign that this story isn't over and in the trash already and nemona's life-changing attachment to the player character isn't going to go totally ignored, as we are bombarded with what is supposed to be followup material that almost all seems eager to talk about literally anything else like they think the main story was a mistake they need to run away from

now, i'm not one to complain about original stories being told, but this was already a story that had room to grow. imagine a world where the gen 9 anime was actually about nemona, arven, penny, and the friend who brought them together. or what their lives were like before that friend came along. every episode. that would get me to watch the anime again and whatever movie came out for it. ask yourself why we don't have that, or even the traditional, like, 1-2 characters tagging along with the MCs per region thing that would leave us knowing them better than we know some irl friends

how was starting over with 100% original characters and new lore that might conflict hard with the upcoming DLC the safer bet? why is a 44 minute miniseries specifically for fans of the game making up OCs for them to get invested in and scrambling to tell their stories as quickly as possible before throwing them in the trash instead of being about the damn game?

sigh. i shouldn't get invested in a series that's about selling monster plushies just because it had one story that stuck with me

#paldean winds seems to mostly be making fun of the infodumping fat pokemon nerd character until he gets his own episode #y'know. the one that represents a lot of their viewers #while nemona is right there outside the window hyping up little kids about battles as usual because they don't hate her like her peers #honestly her overhearing the conversation and looking a little uncomfortable about it would've been a good touch #confirmation that the subtext i noticed is actually considered part of the canon and not a happy accident they'll never talk about again #something i have only gotten from pokemon masters so far #pokemon sv #pokemon #nemonaposting #pokemon scarvi #pokemon scarlet and violet #yada yada ten million other tags #'well at least there's the manga' the manga that inserted its own wacky main character that will probably also revolve around him #idk that one could still be good but it's also an AU and not the versions of the characters i'm invested in if that makes sense #i've been begging for pokemon to feel in touch with its audience forever and as soon as it is they treat it like a hot potato #i feel fucking obsessed because of how long this tease has been stretching on for no good reason #they could've just let us ACTUALLY hang out with the friend trio in vanilla postgame and shown them in the DLC a single time #and i could have had a normal social media presence for the past 3-6 months #instead of dreaming about a pokemon npc last night because of how little faith i have in her getting any justice outside of a fucking gacha #i am so sorry that this is who i am now except for the 2-3 of you who follow me specifically because i post these things #pennyposting #arvenposting

[unexpectedbrickattack]

Hiding the rest of this HUGE comic behind a readmore for ur sanity

Hes got the keenest eye for these things!

Now that this is hiding behind a readmore i can justify writing an essay in here. Nothing big tho i am just very chatty :)!

Postgame where Peppino still gets visits every now and again from the bosses of the tower. I already drew one for the noise (lmao) but i wanted to draw each of the main four interacting with him in some way.

Pepperman is a refined and well renowned artist. His art is highly sought after and his advice is not taken lightly. He has many MANY fortunes to pull from to make his visions a reality and to influence anyone to do anything. Except for Peppino.

From the very first fight, Pepperman is immediately, overwhelmingly obsessed with this stout little brawler. He is much much more than what meets the eyes. He is initially extremely offput and annoyed that a human so boldly decided to waltz into his domain, and he expects to be able to steamroll and bully this…beast…out of his place of work. He is refined when he wants to be, but he is quick to use his brute strength to get what he wants if only bc he knows he can do it

And so when he decides to fully charge and thrash this little trembling human, expecting him to skitter away the second he gets struck, he is completely unprepared for when he gets launched to the other end of this room. The human looks so incredibly PISSED, like a bull seeing red, and suddenly this little altercation suddenly became a real actual ‘knock your teeth out’ brawl. This human is only like half his height, but his punches and bashes fucking knock the wind out of him.

And like ! To add insult to injury!!! After he wins the fight! He visibly deflates, the adrenaline seemingly wearing off. Hes just this trembling fuckin whelp again !!! Whimpering as he fucking runs back out through the portal to do god knows what. And Pepperman could not be any more fucking intrigued. Like this no name came in, whooped his fuckin ass, and went about his day. Its unreal

While Peppino is running around climbing the tower, Pepperman is in his room losing his mind. Hes obsessed. No one has challenged him in this way. No one has fought him and WON. He is ALWAYS able to bully people into submission either through brute force or with money, and he got his ass handed to him !! He needs to know more. Its quite literally consuming him.

Cut to the final fight, set up for a rematch; and he knows he is going to get steamrolled again but it is SO exhilarating to get another chance to see this humans form up close again. This time he can try to commit everything to memory. Its all such a blur though, and in a quarter of the time it took to end their first fight, its over. He gets to watch the human fight the gunslinger with his bare hands, no gun necessary, and he doesnt even bat an eye at what looks to be a clone of himself. He is a force of nature tearing through every single defense, and when Pepperman watches the actual final fight with the bizarre little pizza man, its like hes caught in a movie. The rain, the storm, the atmosphere. He wishes he could burn the entire scene into his mind.

So when everything returns to normal, he takes the time to travel for days to come and find this little human named Peppino. The memory is still strong and vivid but eventually, details will start to slip his mind. He needs to find this human, convince him to sit and do some still life sessions with him to help cement the humans appearance in his head. He hasnt had to resort to…asking for permission for anything in a loooong time…he bullies people into doing what he wants but Peppino is not your average person, and if he wants something from this man, he’ll have to meet him at his level.

He...can make an exception for Peppino...he supposes.

#pizza tower #peppino spaghetti #peppino #pepperman #i love love love how this little comic turned out #esp with how peppino came out in so many panels #esp the one w pepperman holding peppino close: that one is the best i think #anyway #yeah #heehee #this is not intended to be shippy but do as u please #pepperman is just an artist that appreciates beautiful BEAUTIFUL forms #and people who defy him #and he has No filter #peppino is like oh my god #hes eccentric…the worst kind of person…. #but like #no one has tried to fight him since the tower collapsed #and everyone seems peaceful enough now #so if this weirdo thinks hes ‘beautiful’ and ‘exquisite’ and ONLY wants to spend some time to draw him #well thats better than fighting again; hell take it #also #heehee yes; peppino is using a walkman #hes been holding onto that shit for decades its his ol reliable

[starsandhughes]

Penalty Box— Trevor Zegras (Part Fourteen)

SERIES MASTERLIST

previous: thirteen

next: fifteen

(THE SCREENIES I GOT THIS TIME I’M OBSESSED)

also the comment interactions are longer this time and i can’t tell if i hate it or not lmk

(ps guy and kent are the pregame guys iydk)

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2023

yourusername

liked by trevorzegras, jackhughes, and 7,682 others

yourusername welcome to my postgame penalty box show! my heart, my soul, my everything was trevor zegrasing very hard tonight! not only did he have a highlight witch craft pass (deemed by guy and kent “razzle dazzle by z”), but he also made it to FIVE GAMES WITH A PENALTY!!!

on a scale of one to ten— you’re an eleven babe🧡 i love always z-baby!

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trevorzegras i love you forever😘 (ps that pick up line was way too cheesy)

yourusername @_quinnhughes trevor told me he doesn’t love me anymore

_quinnhughes @/yourusername on my way

trevorzegras THAT’S NOT WHAT I SAID

_quinnhughes doesn’t matter i have to legally be on her side

yourusername it’s in the contract

jamie.drysdale @/trevorzegras congratulations z! now come home soon y/n is getting clingy

trevorzegras you say like you don’t complain when i’m “hogging our y/n”

jamie.drysdale @/trevorzegras yeah because she’s my wife! i can’t complain about her cuddling you without you here to cuddle!

trevorzegras SHE’LL BE MY WIFE ONE DAY

jamie.drysdale says you

yourusername immediate divorce

trevorzegras @/yourusername to who?!

yourusername @/trevorzegras yes

user1 z: *has gotten unsportsmanlike misconducts for running his mouth* also z: 😛🥺😆🫤😠

user2 i hate that you aren’t wrong

_quinnhughes did you cry and then post him getting hit when he was okay or am i just special

yourusername ur just special i knew he was fine

jamie.drysdale it’s true we laughed

trevorzegras @/yourusername @/jamie.drysdale IT REALLY HURT

yourusername @/trevorzegras i’ll kiss it better later

_quinnhughes ew i hope he showers first

user3 HE DID IT!!!

colecaufield that’s my best friend!!

jamie.drysdale that’s my best friend???

trevorzegras well this is awkward

jackhughes 💔

yourusername 🤑

_quinnhughes THAT BETTER NOT MEAN WHAT I THINK IT MEANS

jackhughes @_quinnhughes idk what you’re talking about big bro

_quinnhughes @/trevorzegras fix it

trevorzegras @_quinnhughes if she didn’t listen to you she certainly won’t listen to me

user4 if this is what y/n’s comment section looks like, the groupchats must be a part of dante’s 7 circles of hell

lhughes_06 tag yourself i’m z snarling

yourusername i’m z pouting

jackhughes i’m z flailing into the boards

yourusername @/jackhughes i wish you would

trevorzegras babe… you’ve created a monster

yourusername you came that way

trevorzegras I WAS TALKING ABOUT THIS WHOLE SERIES

#penalty box series #trevor zegras fic #trevor zegras au #trevor zegras x reader #trevor zegras insta edit #trevor zegras #trevor zegras imagine #jack hughes #quinn hughes #luke hughes #jamie drysdale #nhl #nhl imagine #hockey imagine #anaheim ducks #quinn hughes x reader

[redwineconversation]

ASSE - Olympique Lyonnais OLPlay Postgame Interviews

To the person who is going around on the LChat insisting that I post there to the point I AM GETTING ASKS ABOUT IT: get off my dick and GO FUCK YOURSELF. I have never and will never post on that godforsaken website. It pisses me off so much that it got to the point where I am getting people messaging me about it. What the actual FUCK is wrong with you you paranoid schizophrenic freak???? What kind of obsessive spiral are you on????? Seek medical help ASAP and leave me both the hell alone and the hell out of your deep and sincere mental trauma.

With that being said, here are the postgame interviews. Idk why I am translating this if some deranged lunatic who is in desperate need of being locked up will just accuse me of posting on that fucking awful website. If their intention is to stop the translations then they are definitely on their way to succeeding.

Standard disclaimers apply.

ASSE - OLYMPIQUE LYONNAIS OLPLAY POSTGAME INTERVIEWS

ALICE SOMBATH OLPLAY POSTGAME INTERVIEW

Journalist: It's good, you're smiling. The defensive line scored: Griedge [MBock], Wendie [Renard] for example. That must be reassuring for the upcoming clash [against PSG].

Sombath: Yeah, it's always reassuring to know that any player can score, especially the defenders. So we hope to have more players in defense who can score [@ Carpenter]. So we'll continue like that.

Journalist: Last question. PSG is next week. Does this game serve a little bit as preparation?

Sombath: In any case, every game that we have done are always good in terms of preparation, especially for games like the semifinal against Paris [Saint-Germain]. Then as I said, we will continue to prepare in the upcoming days so we will be properly prepared for that game.

Journalist: Thank you, Alice. Have a good evening.

Sombath: Have a good evening.

VICKI BECHO OLPLAY POSTGAME INTERVIEW

Journalist: Vicki, first of all congratulations on your hat trick. The team took this game seriously tonight. It's always important to win these derbies.

Becho: Yeah, honestly, for me it's my first derby. It was important for us to play a complete game, that we score, that we find our rhythm again because after returning from the international break it's never easy. But we did it tonight and I'm happy for the team.

Journalist: And what a game from you tonight. You played an incredible game and you scored three goals. Tell me a little about how you experienced this derby. I believe it was your first one, in the big stadium no less.

Becho: That's right, my first derby and honestly, yeah, I didn't think too much. I'm feeling good at the moment. So yeah you have to continue like that. When you're full of confidence it's a lot easier. When you take a shot, it goes in. You're more successful. So yeah, I'm really happy with my performances at the moment. And the most important thing is to continue like that.

Journalist: The young one is full of humility. [This was not said sarcastically] And one last question. Before the game against PSG, well you're scoring a lot of goals. I imagine that's important for your confidence.

Becho: Of course, it's important for my confidence. Today there were quite a few players who scored. So we're happy. Also we created a lot, we had two or three penalties. So those are things to keep in mind and we'll continue like that. We'll take away what we did good, what we can improve on so we can properly prepare for the game against Paris Saint-Germain.

Journalist: And for you, what was good and what can still be improved on? Last question, this time I mean it.

Becho: I think we created a lot of opportunities, really quite a few chances. After, we weren't often put under pressure but the only time when we were put under pressure, there was some confusion and we conceded a goal. So we need to fix those things and yeah. We need to continue like that. We have to create chances, we have to create chances. There were a lot of chances, so there were a lot of goals.

Journalist: You're leaving with the game ball I hope.

Becho: Yeah, that's it. We had to negotiate a little with the referees but I am leaving with the game ball.

Journalist: Have a good evening.

Becho: Thank you, you too,

SONIA BOMPASTOR OLPLAY POSTGAME INTERVIEW

[Bompastor sounds super sick in this interview]

Journalist: Sonia, a serious game from your team this evening. It's always important to win these derbies.

Bompastor: Yes, yes, we wanted to continue our good streak in the league even if the first place is guaranteed. We wanted to use this game as a good preparation game ahead of the upcoming matches. There's a big clash as soon as next week where we are playing Paris [Saint-Germain]. They're a really good team, we know it's going to be a completely different game, very difficult. But we've prepared well and we will arrive full of confidence and serenity [I will be neither confident nor serene].

Journalist: We created a lot of chances tonight. The team was very efficient, they scored a lot of goals despite that goal they conceded. As you said, it's a good preparation game nonetheless before Paris [Saint-Germain].

Bompastor: Yes, yes. There's a lot to be satisfied about, a lot of things which worked well tonight. Those are things we will need to build on ahead of the games coming up towards the end of the season. In any case for the game itself it really fell in line with our expectations both for individual players and as a team. There were no injuries. We're preparing ourselves in the best conditions.

Journalist: And you have a lot of players scoring, that's good for what's coming up.

Bompastor: Yes, as I was saying, individually you have Vicki [Becho] who scores a hat trick, so she is continuing build off her good performances. We also saw a lot of players stand out in a positive way. So it helped the confidence of the individual players but also the team as a whole.

Journalist: Thank you, Sonia. Good game. Good derby.

Bompastor: Thank you.

#all good love stories start in the rain #alice sombath #vicki becho #sonia bompastor #get some serious mental help. preferably the hell away from me.

[hopeful-hugz-dashcomm]

🥚 The past few months since Cam has been gone had made way for a lot of development for Melody. She's my least developed OC out of everyone here and I'm so glad she finally has a gateway into becoming more than just a side character. Feels good to actually be giving her a story with other people.

The active plotting I've done for Cam with Willow ( @catncore ), and their many wonderful OC blogs, and King ( @abstractreign ) and their fantastic OCs as well. It's resulted in some development for her as well and that's really helped as a jumping off point for learning more about how she operates around more passive people.

Now Ender ( @disassnbler ) and I are actively talking on the background and not only if Melody gonna end up with another robotic friend, but there is SO MUCH more. I don't think I've been this obsessed with an upcoming storyline or character relationship for a LONG while. I've been drawing Melody and N (and am working on a sketch of Hope and N) practically nonstop and that's saying something from a very low-motivation artist.

Though I'm also very biased towards Ender. We've been writing and known each other for years. Since I still actively wrote Yu (Postgame/Hardcore Hat Kid) and Trina (Club Penguin OC). It's such a joy to be writing with her again 🤍🤍🤍🤍

#Egg's Blog Commentary #Egg's Dash Commentary #Egg's Plotting Commentary #Y'all who I @'d I hope you don't mind #I want you to see this love too even if it's OOC #Cause I love and appreciate you guys a lot #You make it all worth it

[razs-archetype]

aiden. tell the world about him

THANKYOU BIRDIE.

Oh my god this turned out super long too . Oops!! Putting this under read more as well

Favorite thing about him?

Oh what to choose

-I enjoy picking apart antagonistic characters, and this one was a fun one.

-I like how he acts in episode 5. He’s a pretty decent villain! I enjoyed putting together barely existing pieces and blaming his shift of. Slightly normal to dominating and controlling his little group on jealousy and guilt from kicking lukas out. And his need to regain control over not only Maya and Gill but himself which causes him to put up wall after wall of anger

-only for it to finally crack and crash during the fight scene in chapter 5. Have I talked about the fight scene? It’s so incredibly good. How Aiden projects his problems onto Jesse. How he still manages to hold his own, only for a bit. How he looks at you like the most pathetic wet dog just showed up on your doorstep. How he forgets how to swim if you kick him off.

-he’s great Lmao.

Least favorite thing about him?

Upsettingly, I will admit he’s rather annoying in episode one. And in general, typically if you cannot find something to relate with him he can just sort of feel like an annoying, single sided, reoccurring antagonist.

And I mean, in theory and practice that’s what he is. But where’s the fun in taking canon as just that. What’s exactly stated in the game. Reading between the lines is half the fun of mcsm I think.

Coming up with your own varied perspectives on characters depending on how you play and respond to the world presented to you is a part of the charm in playing most games

Tl;dr aiden s pretty annoying in episode 1 and I don’t think episode one properly delves into his character. But also like. I honestly don’t think they expected to bring him back ever at this point past the end of chapter 4 cameo so I don’t blame him for being that way.

Favorite line?

Anything from th fight

Also most of his dialogue in episode 1 is just . Extremely funny to me.

BrOTP

Said it for lukas and I’ll say it again. I think anything including the old ocelots bonding together again. Slowly healing, maybe not ever becoming as close knit as before. But closing that gap some

It’s wonderful.

OTP

Twirls hair. I am an Aiden/Cassie shipper. There are reasons for this but i don’t want this post to be like. 2000 words (/j)

nOTP

Also stated on the lukas one I did.

Lukas/Aiden.

While I think it’s highly possible Aiden had a small crush on lukas, I don’t think it’s ever going anywhere. And I think he effectively crushed it (hah) when he kicked Lukas out of the old ocelots (and then turned it into the blaze rods)

Not only that but I think they work better as rivals/friends if anything. They play off each other nicely, yes. But I don’t think any serious relationship would even be possible until Aiden gets his shit together and his problems ironed out.

I can genuinely only see it spiral into a constant fight for control over the relationship, where Aiden slowly withdraws and withdraws until he starts a fight that properly ends it. Whether he’s fighting with words or fists. Who knows.

And postgame, I think even a new friendship between the two starts rocky at best. They’re both used to having some control over the other, and now neither is willing to give any.

Aiden was preventing Lukas from growing as a character. And now that he [Lukas] left. They can both grow and change, for better or for worse.

This is kinda why I like Cassie/Aiden. Theyre both struggling with strikingly similar problems, albeit handled in different ways and spawned from far different things. They push each other in a better direction just by playing off each other naturally. They also make each other worse but! Gotta get worse before you get better.

Random headcanon.

He likes to embroider. And sew. And write. Things that keep his hands (and mind) busy are good. When he can’t do any of that he’ll train.

And he’ll craft obsessively too. Part of those new blaze rod patterns was spawned from spite, the emotions that fueled it was anger. Anger created from guilt and fear shoved away and bottled up.

Unpopular opinion.

I think Aiden could be redeemable. Forgiven for his actions? I think it depends on your views.

But I think he’s redeemable.

SongS I associate him with.

Dam, Damn

“Eight”

(If you agree with my aiden thoughts at all. PLEASE listen to Eight - sleeping at last. Please it’s an incredible aiden song. Especially if u pair it w/ aiden/anyone or aiden & anyone.

Favorite picture of him.

This bit

#mcsm #aiden mcsm #mcsm aiden #clover talks #ask game

[miyukihoshizora]

Okay, man, I need to talk about this ending because it has been revolving in my head for like the last 24 hours. Spoilers under the cut, for Pokémon Scarlet/Violet with a few parallels with FFXIV Shadowbringers.

(Reposting from my RP blog because this probably should have been on my main to begin with.)

The whole idea of a "quest for paradise" being the Professor’s motivation makes me wonder a lot about what we know and what we learn in the postgame. Mainly though, I want to say: This reminds me a lot of the story of FFXIV Shadowbringers.

A quest for paradise is the ultimate thing to give to your antagonist, because endless peace and a total absence of conflict means stagnation. Lack of growth. Death of the soul and of adventure. It is the perfect foil to the protagonists in a story about making the most out of your life because your time is limited. (A theme the game already very much addresses, with various degrees of success, through characters such as Ryme, Grusha, Penny, Pepper, Nemona, and even Larry.)

So, the game was great with that, and we haven’t had this level of nuance in storytelling since SuMo (before USUM took a sledgehammer to everything that made the Lusamine plot interesting and SwSh literally pussied out of addressing literally any of its themes; thank you TPCi) so I am absolutely delighted.

Now, for the speculative stuff: I am a hundred percent convinced the machine was actually the Disk-like Pokémon from the Book. Or at the very least, that it was drawing power from it.

Beyond the Professor / Emet-Selch comparison, I did not just randomly bring up Shadowbringers just now: The world of FFXIV has a thing called “Primal Summoning” that makes it so literally any God or made-up mythical figure can become real as long as there are people who believe in it. And these summonings can yield different results in accordance to what the summoner is thinking about.

You see where I’m going with that, right.

Between Scarlet and Violet, the mere difference of the Professor’s interests could very well have been the only factor in determining which era the machine connected to. So, knowing these things, this had me thinking, what if this Angelic Pokémon was based on this exact idea? What if it was actually creating exactly what its master wants, from their own imagination, instead of pulling it from the far future or the distant past?

Hell, Slither Wing and Iron Moth could be two different interpretations of the very same creature for all we know.

It seems a bit too convenient that Cyclizard was the author’s signature Pokémon, and for its Paradox versions to be the first thing the professors pulled out of their respective machines. Because they were so obsessed with these books and its author themselves.

It would also explain why, coincidentally, every Pokémon they managed to call from another era fit one what the author of the Book had already seen. And that would also explain why, in Scarlet, the Paradox Pokémon from Violet are just considered ridiculous urban legends and vice-versa.

I do not believe the Sword of Justice “chimera” we see in the book is here by coincidence either. This is explicitly a Pokémon that doesn’t exist that someone made up in their mind. So if it shows up in the future, this will definitely add water to this mill.

I think that would make this Angel Pokémon the missing link between Arceus, Mew and the Creation Trio, perhaps. Or maybe even the very egg Arceus came from. Who can tell. There’s also the whole connection to the Ultimate Weapon I have not given any thoughts to, but that’s still on my mind.

I don't expect the DLC to confirm or deny anything. (And it would be pretty depressing if they outright confirmed the AI just got eaten by that Pokémon). This will all stay speculative at best, the way we are still left theorycrafting regarding stuff like the RKS project, Macro Cosmos’s ties to the royalists and what Volo’s deal was.

EDIT: Well I've been told by Mako this is apparently a popular theory already, so, thank you Final Fantasy LMAO

#pokémon #pokemon scvi spoilers #text;

[snellyfish]

Indulge me in angiekork, tell me how it be cause I'm interested now

I sat on this ask out of embarrassment for like three weeks I am so sorry AS MUCH AS I LOVE TALKING ABOUT THEM I GET SO SHAMEFUL ABOUT IT AAAH THEY MEAN SO MUCH TO ME. I’m so glad you’re interested 😭 I think their potential dynamic is SUCH a tragic missed opportunity they could’ve had in the games HOLLA!!!!!

Here’s a comprehensive list that I love revising every time I send someone it, enjoy my brain worms!!! This time with doodles attached :]

He’s a literal anthropologist and obsessed with other cultures, and Angie is the only foreigner in the entire class, with some absolutely BATSHIT culture; it only makes sense that Korekiyo would (or should’ve) take an immediate interest in her, with a notepad in hand.

Kiyo has his sister’s voice in his head. Angie has Atua’s voice in her head. (whether they’re both alters or tulpas or just delusions--they’re very similar) They both grew up lonely (Angie stated she was in her freetime events, and Kiyo ONLY had his sister...and we know what happened to her) and had to cope in EERILY similar / same ways; being that both of these “voices” were formed as a way to deal with said loneliness. They would ABSOLUTELY understand each other in this regard if they were to properly get to know each other. (Kodaka knew they’d be too powerful if they interacted and that’s just the cold-hard truth)

Either way I really don’t think Kiyo would dismiss Angie’s Atua ramblings as a crazed religious nutjob, like the rest of the class does, but as a curious case of what the mind does to cope, AND as someone he can relate to.

Dynamic of two generally creepy characters who are both painfully NOT self-aware AT ALL. Absolute outcasts in their class and likely able to be the only ones to truly “understand” each other as stated previously. Both absolute wildcards; unpredictable in their own ways. Angie wants to steal everyone’s blood, Korekiyo wants to steal everyone’s nerves, it all works out!! Also dynamic of Tall And Stoic And Kinda Mean™️ and Short And Bubbly And Optimistic™️. AS WELL as the dynamic of Fucked Up™ and Cinnamon Roll™. They are simultaneously opposite’s attract AND very similar in that they are both self-unaware ritual/seance creeps that no one else wants to hang out with due to being terrified of them.

Going off the stories in his freetime events and how much insane things he’s done and experienced just for the hell of it, as well as his (technically non-canon) actions in the manga where he just goes along with whatever people say to do just for the experience alone;; (AS WELL AS HIS LOVE HOTEL EVENT LITERALLY JUST BEING “OUT OF CURIOSITY”) -- he would absolutely delve facefirst into Angie’s eccentric culture; going along with any of its rituals and practices, initially just to study it but with his picture perfect memory of a specific seance circle…he’d surely stick around. Shoutout to blood cults!!!!!

Kiyo sees the beauty in all people, despite how “ugly” their actions and existences as a whole may be – Angie, through God, says everyone deserves forgiveness and grants that forgiveness immediately. Kind of a matching theme of looking past people’s flaws not in a “I’m choosing to ignore it” way but in a “that makes you the beautiful person you are” way I suppose!

Going with the commonly accepted idea that Kiyo was abused by his sister, and Angie just wants to make everyone happy and has a certain natural charisma to her, able to comfort basically anyone as we saw in the game;; – she would absolutely try her damndest to help him through his trauma. She has very unconventional ways of getting him to cheer up, yet with how inquisitive he is of all human behaviors, nothing she does would ever fail because she’s just so damn weird and interesting; really gets the anthropology gears turning in his head.

I KNOW I JUST POSTED ABOUT IT HAHA AND IT’S WHAT MY ANIMATIC IS ABOUT BUT In a postgame VR AU where they’re all alive, Korekiyo would eventually try to recover from said trauma, leading to him apologizing to Angie for killing her; which she’d genuinely forgive immediately because of her religion and ideals, + she’d understand everything he went through as well and why he did it due to her extremely nurturing personality. Fun angst and comfort to be had there.

The idea alone of Angie being the only one not scared of Kiyo in the class and he’s kinda like “how do I deal with this” because none of his threats of nerve-tearing affect her, and he ends up being scared of her in return. Powerful. Effervescent. The other day my buddy said Kiyo is scared of Angie in the same way an elephant is scared of a mouse and I haven’t stopped thinking about it.

ON THAT SAME THOUGHT he would end up giving up any threats to scare her off and just kinda lets her do whatever, he will threaten to murder someone if they look at him funny, meanwhile Angie’s just crawling all over him like a monkey trying to do a TikTok trend and he’s like “this is fine actually I’m used to it.”

This fanfic that lives in my head rent-free where Kiyo casually gives blood sacrifices to hear about Angie’s culture.

#shinnaga #ship analysis #danganronpa #danganronpa v3 #korekiyo shinguji #ask #angie yonaga #art #blood #doodle #my art #fanart #noeggets #lies down on the ground and starts sobbinfg my fukinf eyes out #most interaction of them we get is kiyo saying ANGIE DONT RESSURECT PEOPLE #+ kiyo saying angie is Most Frightening Indeed #AND THEIR ULTIMATE TALENT DEVELPOMENT PLAN WHICH ISNT MUCH BUT #CHEFS KISS I LOVE EM #food mention

[vespertin-y]

I simply must ask you about your comfort character as well, as a treat! ;D

HUGS YOU HUGS YOU HUGS YOU HUGS Y

Sexuality Headcanon: kokichi’s canonically some shade of mlm, i headcanon him as bi!! i like projecting my sexuality journey onto him, of thinking you’re gay for years and years and years and then seeing a particularly attractive person from the opposite gender and thinking “wait. WAIT, FUCK-”

Gender Headcanon: kokichi’s gender is a highly classified DICE secret and should you attempt to discover it you will be slowly and dramatically lowered into a tank of sharks. he/she/it pronouns tho.

A ship I have with said character: if u have scrolled though my blog for more than two seconds you’ll know i’m obsessed with saioumatsu, lol. it’s a big comfort ship for me and i think about it more than any other relationship in danganronpa,,,unfortunately it’s a pretty rare ship, but fortunately all three individual pairs in it have decent followings so i’m not completely starved :D i just think kokichi deserves two people who will love him honestly and openly and gently, but still refuse to take any of his shit yknow? also i think it’s fun that most of the biggest problems in each pair are solved by the third person being there! like how kokichi would have no patience for shuichi putting kaede on a pedestal, and kaede would just knock their heads together whenever the boys attempt a classic Saiou Miscommunication™, and how shuichi would be a good mediator for when the omaede bickering turns to actual fighting!

A BROTP I have with said character: fuck i already spent ages talking about platonic ougoku in the gonta post,,,uhh i like the idea of him and kiibo making up postgame. him and miu are really funny and really tragic which is always a good combo. him and rantaro are great since rantaro is so easily swayed into shenaniganery. i like the idea of him harassing kiyo into telling him cool stories. and him and himiko have been near n dear to my heart ever since i read that one set of toxicpineapple fics!

A NOTP I have with said character: nothing against the folks who like it but kokichi/rantaro squicks me out 😬. why is my aroace king, rantaro amami, kissing his little brother. whys he doing that!! funnily enough i do actually headcanon kokichi as having an ill-fated crush on rantaro,,,it just makes me uncomfy for rantaro to reciprocate idk idk

A random headcanon: he presents very fem!! idk i know it’s not a popular headcanon but he’s always just. felt that way 2 me i guess? he wears exclusively dresses and skirts unless he’s in his DICE uniform, because unfortuately pants are more practical when ur running from the cops 😔. he still dresses like a fucking clown though being fem doesn’t give you TASTE

General Opinion over said character: you may notice that this post is actually SHORTER than my other posts for this ask game, despite kokichi being my favorite character ever. this is because i kept devolving into completely incomprehensible gibberish trying to explain how much i love this little guy. he is my scrunkly my blorbo my son my poor little meow meow my boyfriend my sleep paralysis demon. i have genuinely gotten myself through depressive episodes by looking at fanart of this fucking anime boy. i am gently wrapping him in a fuzzy blanket and tucking him inside a pringles can <3

#mr honeysucklebuttons pullin thru for me with two asks <333 #kokichi ouma #ouma kokichi #dr #mem gets an ask

[nighttimepixels]

TALK TO US ABOUT MASS EFFECT I HAVE BEEN AN INSANE MASS EFFECT/SHAKARIAN TRASH PERSON SINCE 20-FUCKING-11 AND LEMME TELL YOU THOSE FEELINGS HAVENOT TARNISHED A SINGLE FRACTION IN THOSE TEN YEARS OH MY GOOOOOOODDDSSSS!!!!!!!

I DEMAND A PLAY-BY-PLAY UP TO THE MINUTE OF YOUR REACTIONS TO EVERYTHING!!!!

you are so valid and I totally see why everyone I've ever mentioned it to loves the hell out of it

aksdjlsdfj I meannnn if you want to hear my rambling about it then hell yeah

Okay, gonna put this below the cut to save everyone else XD also- since I'm not leaving this Mass Effect obsession anytime soon, if you're not interested in seeing occasional posts about it, please feel free to block the tag "night plays ME"~

(mild spoilers ahead??)

((also for real I mean it when I say this is rambling as hell lol, apologies and no stress if absolute no one reads all this))

OKAY SO Mass Effect 1-

Stars help me, I was honestly hooked right from the start?? Like even in Legendary Edition (the combined trilogy just re-released in one "can play it on one system + minor improvements", for anyone who doesn't know) where it's smoothed out, of course it's obvious that ME1 is a decade old... but the foundation for these relationships are all there and gods I love them already.

Like - Kaiden right off the top is a delightful good fightin lad, what the hell. I've heard that he's viewed as 'bland' by a good portion of the fan community but I dunno, he's a delight and even more complex by the time 2 rolls around and you encounter him on Horizon, it was honestly Ashley I was way more meh about - mostly because before you can learn about her family history/etc, she comes off as hella xenophobic and I was immediately offended for my growing space family that she didn't like/trust all the aliens around, pfff.

(she gets redeemed a bit through further actions/evolving thoughts, but I thought in retrospect it was a bummer that they didn't flip the order there, give her a chance to be liked before the complicating factor of being so rude about aliens >:c that then she could grow from... ah well. Apparently she has a good arc but uh, let's just say I chose Kaiden at the "key junction" in the latter part of the game so I won't be seeing anymore of Ashley uh... anytime soon, haha.)

Garrus??? Is??????? The ABSOLUTE best???????????

I liked him from the start, I'm always a bit of a sucker for a rogue-detective "the system won't bring this bastard to justice, so I've got to" type and all their moral shadiness XD But he just gets better, honestly, and where I'm at in ME2 (right before the Reaper IFF mission, as of typing this, with everyone's loyalty!) I am only digging myself deeper into this hole-

-*wheezing* okay anyways -

Wrex is AMAZING I love fightin' middle-aged krogan bastard, gods. Liara is great too, I'm a sucker for a wlw relationship (playing fem!Shepard, so) - buuuut I'll admit she's a bit more one-note in ME1. Last week while I was still on ME1 I remember hearing (while trying to dodge spoilers) that her arc is really good, though. I think they leaned a little hard on the 'innocent but sexy' sterteotype on her (so despite the yikes aspect of a few of the things I've learned in ME2, lol, I actually really like the complexity that's been added to her character.)

Saved Liara first, so by the time I got to Noveria and had the standoff with Benezia there was the chance to have emotions over Liara having to face her TwT and of course, I made the questionable but quality decision to free Queen Rachni heheh. no ragrets

More than a blow-by-blow of my choices though I totally wanna take the chance to say that even in the mild jankiness of ME1 (goddammit, the Mako.... please..... please just go up this impossible cliff I just want to resource hunt-) the way that the lore, both obvious/key to main plot and the lesser/filler/background/world-building kinds... I just love it. It incorporates it well, you can go ham in the codex learning more, or just dive into the basics - it's clearly a complex galaxy (and they do an even better job in 2 of fleshing it out further), and it never really felt overwhelming. It was pretty natural figuring it all out-!

Plus the interesting implications of resource hunting amongst the sapient races, and the little side missions you better bet I did every one of- there's so much rich depth in the story if you do 'em!! (And that lead with that Keeper side mission...? Looking back, damn, clever foreshadowing-!!!)

And oh my gods, Ilios??? hell yeah. I loved that mission so much, especially having Garrus & Kaiden with me when talking to the hologram/computer, and more than anything, that last sprint in the Mako trying to get to the jump before it closed-???

yeet the boi-

Also mannn I love a good setpiece, and having to go up the side of the elevator, space-side?? such a cool setup!!

Plus it felt good having been Paragon enough (as simple as the good v bad vibe system is, I don't hate it, lol) to avoid one of the Saren fights, ngl. And the er, "second fight" with Sovereign-Saren.... hell yeah

... I'll admit I had to double check my choice re whether to save the Council. I did in the end, but I swear, sometimes the way they phrase things I'm like ".... okay but Garrus is right, defeating Sovereign is more important than these few leaders??????" woops. Listen, priorities, is all I'm saying..... (￣ヮ￣|||)ゞ

'Course later they emphasize (in ME2) that there were 10,000 people on that same ship and I was like well I wouldn't have second guessed if I'd known that, I mean c'mon-

Also I did indeed romance Liara in this one, so I got that scene ;Dc But,,,, I also knew by the end that I was totally gonna romance Garrus in 2 since he's an option then finally,,,,, lemme tell you the guilt as I waffled over whether to romance Liara bc of it. hahaha.

Aaaaand Mass Effect 2-

So I'm only up to right before the Reaper IFF Mission, so I don't know the ending, etc etc lol. That said, I've just finished every side mission I've found with the exception of the Shadowbroker Quest and the Arrival Quest (I've heard the latter basically leads into ME3, and the former is best either right before the Omega 4 jump or in postgame).

So from the start - fuck yeah fuck yeah what a high adrenaline start Shepard noooooo but also yes save Joker aH-

The motion comic too hot damn nice job

I loved this setup, seriously - especially forcing Shep into this situation, having to work with/for Cerberus, and the compelling reasoning given behind "why" they do what they do (I especially found it a good point that the Salarians have the Task Force, the Asaris the Commandos, the Turians the- etc... like, true, when you put it like that, having a similar group advancing human interests/solving human interstellar problems is pretty reasonable...). That said, I love too that it really isn't shied away from how Cerberus is nonetheless fucked up - or its at least done fucked up stuff.

Listen, I still think some messed up stuff is gonna be revealed in 2's endgame......... after that Horizon mission and the Collector's ship???? TIM I SEE YOU YOU SHADY MF-

aaanyways lol...

I'm so so glad on a gameplay level they nixed the Mako style exploration. A few Hammerhead missions are fine and a lot more focused than the slippery ass navigation in that glorified ATV, pfff. The probes are a neat way of getting after similar resources - and more importantly, having good levels and some good hubs (the Zakera Wards, Omega, Ilium, etc) is way way more fun than having a more 'sprawling' space that is.... a lot of empty nonsense, lol.

Then there's the fact that we get Joker right off the bat and you can interact with him so much - and him and EDI??? Get out gods I love them. Kasumi is so right when she says they sound like a bickering old married couple lol. I have a terrible feeling that some shit is gonna happen with EDI..... but I don't think she's evil as-is, at least.

Side-eying the hell out of those "access forbidden" parts of her that she doesn't even know.... and the fact that her AI core has a locked door access................... something's gonna happen gdi LEAVE OUR ADOPTED AI ALONE.

(Also Joker pls stop fracturing your thumb on the mute button)

Also please save me there are so many hot aliens in this game,,,,, the xeno/monsterfuckers really comin' through strong in the sequels............... doin' the lord's work........................................

In general, I love how many levels ME stepped up in two with complexity and interwoven narratives!! Like, to the point it'd be almost a drag to replay ME1, even though it was fun going through it (if occasionally a bit tedious with the cookie cutter rando planet science/mine facilities, lol). Like, just from how fun and interesting ME2 is, mostly! more of all the pre-introduced races, plus new ones, plus more filling in of intragalactic politics, and more interesting implications of all these space-faring races mixing....

Also gods WREX and his planet holy shit,,,,, fuckin' hell yeah my man get their shit together and also adopt Grunt yes good-

And Mordin??? My singing semi-evil scientist best friend forced to confront his choices more than he thought he ever would have???? With some of the best ongoing general report chatter of all the companions??

(when I tell you I choked on my coffee when I talked to him after confirming romance choice w/ Garrus and that 'pamphlet' and 'anaphalactic shot if ingesting-' kajsldkfjsldfjk)

Like, fuck, the fact that they actually dive into the mixed morality and horrors of the genophage, and you can confront Mordin on it, for good reason, yet he still stands his ground, until finally some bits of his loyalty mission seem to... affect him, and I'm guessing might set up things for 3 with him? Unsure, but either way, damn, the fact that they start to dig into it...

And Taliiiii my beloved forbidden alien wife TwT her loyalty mission was SO GOOD. I love how varied they all are?? Getting to defend her and discover what she'd unwittingly been a part of-!!

Zaeed is a bastard but tbh I love that he is and that he's unapologetic in him - and Kasumi omg, best thief. A heist?? Gods, yes- I love our couch lounge chats XD

Samara is..... illegally.......... she's an illegally powerful and beautiful and eloquent MILF...........................

(.... listen I'm sapphic as hell and I'm kicking my own ass for picking her up last aksjdlfksjdfl - but her loyalty mission, damn. And seeing how there's this interesting cultural subset, and the struggle with the Asari in that they unquestioningly accept/respect justicars, but also know that the impact outside their culture is a diplomacy nightmare waiting to happen-)

,.,,,,,T,,, Thane,,,,,

I am weak for morally implicated murder dads okay?? And that voice??? His mannerisms?????? How you first see him, and that prayer after assassinating her...???????? And his history/his people's history with the hanar, gods I love how messy it is, it feels so much more real!

Also Jack is a mess and I love her (and want to get her some therapy, omg), and her and Miranda nearly duking it out after you've done both their loyalty missions??? so good and makes a lot of sense-! Honestly I would love more interactions between teammates on the ship, but there's already so much the devs had to balance I can't blame 'em for minimizing, heh. But suffice to say I also love Miranda and Jacob, even if I'm softest for my alien crew XD Hell yeah Jacob, we'll get loud and spill drinks on the citadel indeed TwT

.... I could write a whole essay on how much I love Garrus oTL Perhaps because he and Tali are the throughlines from 1 on your 2 crew, I have some of the strongest feelings about them... but genuinely, he was one of my favorite companions in the first game, and how you find him as Archangel in two? Getting to help him fight his way out after he's gone nearly 48 hours straight fighting off three gangs alone, jfc. His vengeance quest and what can happen there.... That line? fuck me, that line -

It's so much easier to see the world in black and white. Grey? I don't know what to do with gray...

How DARE you come for my heart like this, devs holy shit

(also, some other choice faves so far from the series from him include We can disobey suicidal orders?? and This wasn't in my training manual... [in 1, if you have him with you @ th Thorian fight] and his whole.... pop the heat sink - in his romance ;Dc)

asdasdfksadjfkl like I said I can write an essay on him PFFF suffice to say I'm very looking forward to his romance scene and where things go in 3

But yeah gods I'm just gonna keep rambling if I'm not careful lol. Gods I don't even know what to talk about it's all so good and while I can understand people roasting the obviousness of Paragon V Renegade (v neutral) choices/alignments, I think they do a pretty damn good job in 2 of pushing it further - to the point that there were some times that I accidentally got renegade points and I wasn't that mad, haha. There's so much fun in the interactions that I just have a good time anyways~

I have so many thoughts about TIM (The Illusive Man) and Cerberus.... theories evolving galore............... and like, what the hell!! Omega 4 going to the center of the galaxy is such a cool twist, goddamn - though my heart still breaks at losing Kaiden (his line if you haven't romanced him?? about feeling like he lost a limb when he lost you??? holy shit.... but I also can't blame him for not trusting Cerberus to the point of it affecting his ability to trust Shepard... like fuck Shep go after himmmm) I'm really excited to see where that goes since he comes back in 3, and what the fuck happens with Cerberus bc while I love the fact that obviously there are a lot of people in it for the right reasons, doing good work, there are those that are doing the opposite, and I have a very bad feeling about where TIM will end up landing....

All that said though I need to do the Reaper IFF mission (where I'm lightly spoiled as to getting That Boy, but not how/what happens to make it so - just that it's apparently wise to have all your side missions done before getting him...) and the actual Omega 4 jump. So we'll see what happens and what I think about it from there heheh!

.... major kudos and genuine props if you made it here to the end, I am so sorry for not editing on condensing all this, and appreciate you so much ;w;

#night answers #night plays ME #(yes that's a purposeful pun lol) #((i sure have played myself by starting this series its so good aksdjflskjfd))

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I suppose you can call me "villain Dimitri anon" now, but I actively dislike Azure Moon for the narrative perks that you and other fans insist it has, but I can't see. What back and forth does Dimitri have with his retainers that aren't confined to supports? There's just Gilbert, Rodrigue, and Byleth ignoring the one-eyed elephant in the room.(1/2)

What support network does Dimitri have? A bunch of badly abused subjects at the end of their rope who don't have the guts to abandon him or give him a wake up call. Dimitri's redemption in the rain makes zero sense as the scene progresses, and outside of some lip service in a support, he's so cured of any trauma that not even getting the truth about Duscur fazes him. What's worse, this redemption is the main idea of the route. (2/3 now)

The back and forth is in reference to how the army in AM feels directionless and disagrees on whether they should liberate the Kingdom or rescue Rhea first. This gets references both in story cutscenes and in the exploration of dialogue of numerous characters, heavily reinforced by many of these same characters remarking on how off-putting Dimitri’s behavior is. This stands in contrast to CF never questioning Edelgard’s actions even as they’re far more systemically terrible with the work of Hubert and the Agarthans behind the scenes; even VW offers a number of scenes and exploration content of characters questioning and critiquing Claude’s actions. Felix’s mini-arc outside his support line with Dimitri is the clearest example, because he’s the loudest voice of opposition and because if you trigger their supports some of the dialogue changes to reflect that, while Rodrigue plays a predictable but workable role as the doomed mentor figure whose death forces Dimitri to confront how his obsession with revenge is hurting the people he loves.  This is all unfortunately somewhat undermined by Byleth’s presence and the need for self-insert romance, with them supplanting Dimitri’s established support network and worst of all leading to Dedue being killed off by default and then never re-integrated properly into the story lest his intimacy with Dimitri pose an obstacle to the expected lord/Avatar romance (that can’t even be pushed in the same way that Edeleth can in all routes, incidentally, because Dimitri can’t S rank m!Byleth). This is a genuine problem in AM, but curiously it’s one that I see brought up almost exclusively by fans of Dimitri and his route rather than those who hate AM and/or rail against Dimidue as an allegedly racist pairing.

None of the other Blue Lions gets a single meaningful word in in the main story cutscenes. You can get some character development for Ingrid, Sylvain, and Felix in monastery dialogue and DImitri's supports and that's it. Not to mention, gameplay-wise, dealing with Dimitri is just no fun, and there's no choice to get fed up and leave. With all of Crimson Flower's problems, at least you had to actively choose to go on that route. (3/4 now)

I wouldn’t say that’s all that different from how the other routes handle their chorus of minor characters, especially CF which again minimizes any sort of friction the Eagles might have with Edelgard even when she’s outright lying to them. There’s a reason that SS is sometimes cited as a better characterization showcase for the Eagles other than Edelgard and Hubert, particularly for Ferdinand who actually gets to be the contrarian #3 on that route. Gameplay is more subjective, although I’d rank being unable to instruct Dimitri or have him engage in monastery activities for four calendar months is more than offset by CF being exactly that many months shorter than AM or VW. Also, in terms of building characters Gilbert is far, far less of a pain in the ass than Jeritza, and I say that as someone who’s painstakingly gotten every character in the game to all ranks at S+ and all classes mastered over many NG+ runs. Having to pick CF is also an inconvenience that screws with the flow of Chapter 11 since you need to waste a battle weekend going to Edelgard’s coronation lest you miss out on instruction weeks or later weekends doing it at the start of the month. It’s kind of a moot point to argue about this anyway as the Deer have it the best when it comes to unit development, with neither of these restrictions as well as the longest route and no Part 2 exclusive to worry over.

Crimson Flower had a "big picture" war story, Verdant Wind had good character balance and exposed the truth about the player character. Azure Moon was just all DImitri. Not to mention, my own political philosophy and real-world history interests make me biased against Dimiri and his stance. (And no, I'm no fan of dictators, just not of a fan of Fearghus-style feudalism) (4/5)

I do like redemption stories. But I've seen them done better elsewhere. Dimitri's character is interesting, but his route isn't. All routes on Three Houses have problems that I nitpick about, but as thing stand, I can support Claude and Edelgard in achieving their ideals, i cannot in good conscience support Dimitri as king. Nurse him back to sanity, maybe, but put him in charge of other people's lives? No. (end)

Eh, SS is the route you’re looking for if you want the full story of Byleth’s origins and their connection to Rhea; VW’s endgame exposition dump is more about the true origin of Crests and Relics and general worldbuilding which is why I’d call it the big picture route over CF which kicks one of its major antagonists to an offscreen postgame. I also question why you single out the quasi-feudalism of Faerghus when that’s the established standard for all of FE and for most of the fantasy genre overall. Fire Emblem is notoriously reactionary when it comes to its politics, such that Dimitri’s solo ending suggesting the beginning of a participatory government might be the single most concrete move toward democracy of any lord in the series. Even as tiny a step as that is it’s more than can be said for Edelgard not delivering on her rhetoric of abolishing the nobility and...whatever she plans for the church (since she vacillates on whether she’s fine with the Seiros faith but only takes issue with the church or whether she thinks humanity has no need for gods, and the only CF ending that re-establishes the church has it run by the state which is some prime dystopian stuff). Claude similarly suffers in that his plans remain ongoing at the end of VW and lack any concrete shape beyond opening the borders and forcing people of different nations and cultures to interact and get along - a well-intended idea, but not one that will lead to serious change without a lot of work and oversight. 

Dimitri lacks such grandiose ambitions, and once he’s moved beyond his need for revenge his goals center around alleviating the suffering of the Kingdom and of his loved ones, but on a meta level that’s kind of all he needs to do. One of the reasons that AM’s story structure is more coherent and well-paced than that of the other routes is that it’s extremely well-trod ground for IS: “blue lord takes back invaded homeland from red emperor with the Power of Friendship” is the standard FE plot going back all the way to Marth, and Dimitri’s biggest deviation from that model is the somewhat realistic depiction of his struggles with mental illness. That’s probably why many longtime veterans of the series favor AM, because we know it’s the type of narrative IS excels at and we’re not expecting anything more politically revolutionary. Hell, the proto-democratic ending was as unexpected to me as Dimitri’s strong queer notes...which is why I prefer him over the other two incidentally, not because of his politics which are just fantasy boilerplate of a good king being restored to his throne, and there was much rejoicing, etc. There are gender-based readings of AM that I and others have made, not to mention people who enjoy the homoromantic push and pull of Dedue and Felix on Dimitri and how those relationships develop against one another, and I think it’s telling that those unconventional analyses of Three Houses’s most typical lord and most typical route are still more plausible than all the additional motivation and setup you’d have to throw in to make Dimitri a proper villain, or even just an antagonist for the length of more than one chapter.

#Fire Emblem #FE16 #Fire Emblem Three Houses #Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd #Azure Moon

[fandoms-on-repeat]

I saw your blog, i see you like danganronpa- uh- idk- can you maybe- tell me some of the things you like about danganronpa? Or anything about your danganronpa stuff maybe? 👉👈 ~ anon ♡

Oh I have so many aus for Danganronpa. I absolutely love the games and art for it (tho I cant draw the characters well.)

I loved most of the games but the remaining survivors for v3 was pretty disappointing cause I didn’t really like Maki or Himiko. Maki was too aggressive and made me feel really uncomfortable and Himiko was generally boring and tiresome to listen too. (No hate for the people who like them though.)

I genuinely loved all the protag choices for each of the games and how different they were to eachother. I appreciate they didn’t have them act the same way but gave them different backstorys and morals and I love that they all didn’t value hope in the same way. Makoto saw it as the key to defeat despair once and for all, Hajime didn’t give a shit about it, and Shuichi rejected it.

Now to ramble about aus :D

So I have like twenty aus for each game so I’m just gonna vaguely explain a handful that I favor.

Hajime Kamukura- this is an au where the experiment somewhat failed on Hajime. He kept his memories of everything. The Scientists thought the projected had failed and tried to kill him and start on someone else which led to Hajime killing them and running out. See, the experiment hadn’t been a complete fail, Hajime now had all the talents in the world. After returning to find his two best and only friends dead because of some Ultimates, Hajime’s blossoming hatred for the academy that had betrayed him only grew as he realized the Reserve Course would never be treated equally to the Ultimates. He saw the abuse they had to put up with daily and decided to take down Hope’s Peak academy once and for all and abolish the so called title of Ultimates

Dead but Not- THIS IS A VERY DARK AU WITH DARK THEMES! This au follows the events that happen in THH but Junko didn’t kill the blackens, instead, she locked them away until she was called out but the remainder of the students as the Mastermind and then released the Blackeneds back to them. But she also returned the dead victims. But now the victims were modified and altered to obsess over different things. Hifumi loves Violence and Destruction, Chihiro loves Death, Taka loves Pain and Suffering, Sayaka loves Addictions, Mukuro was still Despairful, and Sakura was supposed to crave destruction but it failed to happen. She’s the only one from the victims with morals. The school is now a maze like structure. The remaining students must find all the blackeneds and escape alive before the modified victims find and kill them all.

Hinata triplets- au where the different versions of Hajime (Hajime, Izuru, World Destroyer) are all siblings, triplets in fact. WD and Izuru were taken into Hope’s peak academy and made into what they were in the anime, WD was a killing machine, best shooter in the world. A perfect Assassin and Izuru was made into the Ultimate ultimate. They were also made to forget about eachother. WD went rouge and escaped and Izuru was broken out by Junko. Eventually the run into a destraught Hajime, claiming to be their brother. Now they have to work with Hajime and regain their memory and take down the academy before to takes them down.

Horsemen of the Apocalypse- Hajime is thé entity known as The Apocalypse. He has made four innocent people into his horsemen. No one knows where he came from or what his motives are but they do know the one thing he wants and it’s to watch the world’s slow destruction. Nagito Komaeda is the Horsemen of Death. Mikan Tsumiki is the Horsemen of Pestilence. TeruTeru Hanamura is the Horsemen of Famine. Chiaki Nanami is the Horsemen of War.

Postgame- this au takes place two years after the events in THH which was just a terrifying VR simulator show. They all live in a small city/town per request of Makoto who wanted them to stay in touch and close together. (Also thé great Tragedy still happened but Makoto and Junko managed to work together and help the remnants return to a somewhat normal way. They live in the town/city too) Pregame v3 cast also resides in this small city/town.

Lovegame- au where, instead of Despair, Junko was obsessed with love and trapped the cast of THH, V3, and SDR2 in the school in a game of Love and would give them each a somewhat romantic task per day and if they failed, they’d get punished (basically the execution except it wouldn’t kill ya, just hurt a HELL of ALOT)

Roommates- it’s just follows the lives of Chiaki Nanami, Hajime Hinata/Izuru Kamukura, and Nagito Komaeda if they were roommates together. Just a pro-komahinanami au

I am a Robot- Izuru save Chiaki instead of watching her die but now she’s a cyborg. (Part human, part robot) cause some parts of her were beyond saveable. Now she must work together with Izuru and a reluctant Servant to free her class from Junko and the despair that controls them.

Loyal Servant- Remnant au where you follow as Servant. See, Komaeda didn’t fall to despair like the other’s when watching Chiaki die since he’s used to seeing the people he cares about, die. But he plays along, acting like he did. He won’t let Chiaki’s death go unavenged. Servant plans to kill Despair at its roots. Future Foundation is too busy being hypocritical and killing eachother so Servant takes it apon himself to end it all. He will turn the Remnants against eachother and cause them to kill eachother, he’ll manipulate Monaca into destroying the Warriors of Hope and then herself and then take down Junko. All while seeming like a simple, mindless servant.

I got more but those are my main ones.

#danganronpa #thh #sdr2 #v3 #oumie rambles #hajime kamukura #i am a robot #dead but not #hinata triplets #horsemen of the apocalypse #postgame #lovegame #roommates #loyal servant

[boybandsim]

leafeana replied to your post: 

WAIT i was just scrolling through your blog cause im hungry for content and saw this again and realized you asked what version i was playing? which i dont remember answering whoops

im playing it on pc! which is great bc then i get to mess around with mods (like the one that gives cindy some real clothing lol) but its also got its downsides since my computer is definitely not a gaming computer, which means graphics take a serious hit and lagging isnt uncommon

im...not sure if its royal edition?? I think windows edition has all the features of royal edition, although im not completely sure. I think luna has a cutscene in Insomnia thats only in royal edition, so once im there ill be able to tell. technically im in Insomnia now but ive time traveled back and it might be a while before i push on to the finale. after dealing with Altissia --> the start of Insomnia linearly i wanted some time to chill with the bros and pretend

everything is fine for a while. it has been a WILD ride for sure and yeah I haven't even started up any of the dlc yet! theres so much content!! ive been practicing playing as the other bros during medium-hard combat which has kept it feeling really fresh too. also its hilarious just blasting bad guys with a bazooka while the other people are in there swinging around swords and knives. and i haven't done any of the crossover quests yet, which seem big and exciting!

ill be forever sad that i missed the assassins festival but theres definitely plenty to do that I'm excited for. and im getting really into the fishing!! charmed is definitely the right word like..its not perfect at all but this game is so genuinely endearing with its characters personalites and development and its themes and music as well and it really does some things SO well.

god okay this is a lot of words. sorry for rambling and for the late reply! no one i know plays this game or has much interest in it so youre getting all my bottled up enthusiasm

PLEASE DO NOT EVER APOLOGISE FOR RAMBLING SEND ME AS MUCH AS I LOVE WORDS AND THOUGHTS AND TALKING ABOUT FFXV DUDE <3333 also literally no worries about late replies or replying at all im forever shit at them myself i get it bro nw nw nw

hell yeah pc is royal edition with a bunch of other shit and the dlcs (bar ardyn) incorporated, dont worry, also i would die for that one cindy in a decent outfit mod i know the exact one youre on about LOL (also i can recommend you some other mods if u like!!)

if i can share some knowledge with you right quick cuz i had the same problem and wouldve died to have someone tell me i went from barely 20fps on a good day to being able to run multiple programs with ffxv in the background; specialk is a very quick install and majorly helped with multithreading; otherwise for the in game options are using low resolution texture pack (assets option); shadows look near visually identical on the lowest option compared to the highest; all nvidia effects can be turned off with no significant graphic change; turning off anti aliasing entirely genuinely makes the game look better for me; i can post my full settings if itll help you and ive also read through a few tutorials for modding around lag so i can try and help you with that, i do get pretty major lag spikes though and frequently find it near impossible to stream/record, but i manage to nail that 60fps on average if im solely running ffxv with a few cut corners like those

also dont blame you with altissia, ngl i boiled through the story rollercoaster right quick after exploring most of the open world before even touching altissia and ended up ignoring all postgame content for starting a new save immediately and replaying just to get that hangout time in the open world that wasnt just go-back-in-time-through-magic-dog. but i feel you so hard dude i just want more of them chilling. literally i have 300 hours in this game already and i know half of those have been using the car listening to tunes LMFAO

yeah the crossover quests are funnn the one with terra wars is sweet and the ffxiv one is SO funny its literally hysterical i was roaring with laughter a couple times!!! and good on you practising i didnt touch any of the extended combat until my third save and yeah honestly if you want to do the postgame menaces those skillsll come in useful, its funny because the maingame bosses arent that hard but the postgame is mental. but yeah i love blowing shit up with proms bazooka it fucking rules nerds can keep their swords

ALSO SAME... i wanna play the promptis date so bad!! i wanna play episode duscae so bad!!! wanna play the platinum demo with baby noctis so bad!! knowing theyll never be ported kills meeeeee. sad & upset but as you say theres so much to do and the dlc honestly offer so much im still finding shit i havent done and ive spent a year playing already

honestly so much of this game for me is literally just booting it to go hang with the guys its really relaxing lmfaooo... hiking around with these goofy dudes. sometimes i just wanna chill with the anime boys. YEAH literally its sweet and charming and then fucking heartbreaking and even though the writing is hammy as hell im honestly so willing to forgive it. not only for the clear amount of care and love that went into specifically building the guys relationship (which anyone knows is the best and most realised part of the game) but the details and amount of lore you can uncover if you take a step and interpret a little. maybe thats too generous a statement for what was an executive nightmare and critically underdeveloped but i grew up on ffxiii and knowing the versus 13 lore and that ffxv was part of that extended canon im satisfied with it being another side to that story and running with that. i think supplemented with its additional content years after release ffxv isnt a complete experience but enough of one to leave an impact or at least it did majorly for me! ive been obsessed.

OMG sorry im nerding too its all good lol just genuinely i love this game and its hard to find people talking about it these days but i really had such a good time and still am continuing to and i love it fuck it ball hard

real shit though it has the best fishing minigame of all time hands down nothing has come close fuck the haters

#readmore for dashboards

[meowstix]

Pokemon X Notes

-It really seems they’re trying to make accepting other views a theme, but it really doesn’t show up too much. Show, don’t tell.

-if lysandre is some well known figure and owns a company why the fuck is he established as some mysterious figure?? bitch everyone knows who jeff bezos and steve jobs are.

-the palace is. really weird. like there’s mentions of past wars and the current owner being somewhat of a shitbag, but it never goes anywhere?? where is our war profiteer lysandre au?

-at one point if you talk to trevor he mentions seeing a pokemon when he was young that he can’t remember and it just goes nowhere?? it kinda reminds me of go so i guess they reused that idea

-it feels like team flare is trying to pull off the whole “comedic villains who still get shit done” thing but like. it doesn’t work when the leader is this asshole capitalist who’s obsessed with keeping the world beautiful by committing genocide.

-why is the poke ball factory in laverre? could it be a message about how nowhere is safe from industrialization? or am i looking too deep?

-honestly lysandre is just so boring in game. he’s just some edgy guy and i have no idea how i’m supposed to feel about the whole “losing faith in humanity” thing. is it supposed to give depth? to me, it makes him so much worse. rich people aren’t motivated by making the world what they view as a better place, no matter how bad the path to it is. they’re motivated by profit, and pokemon doesn’t seem to get that. anyway generations lysandre is best lysandre.

-in lysandre labs, mable states that they’ve gathered data of tons of people throughout the region through the holo caster. excuse me what the fuck??

-first off, jesus christ no need to pull this curse of immortality shit on some kids, and secondly, was lysandre fucking buried alive?? at first i thought he just died but apparently it’s a fate worse than death.

-hey why the fuck is this game saying “but lysandre DID kind of have a point”??? fucking no. he attempted mass genocide and thought that punishing all for the crimes of a few was ok. yes, it’s important that shitty people should face the consequences of their actions. but there will always be bad people, and you can’t get rid of all of them. fight against the injustices that you CAN change. plus, sometimes it really is black and white. with mass genocide there is no moral gray area. what lysandre was doing was bad no matter how you look at it and he was a bad person, no matter his motives.

-“I think the reason we’re alike is because we have so much in common” -Calem

-Do I still think these games are a fucking mess? Yes. But, for better or worse, it’s a mess with so much potential. But, it was ruined by bland characters and whatever the hell happened with Lysandre. Really, I suppose you could argue these games are pretty similar to Sword and Shield. Of course, those had amazing characters, while in X/Y, Shauna is the only one who I’d call a good character. I think the best way of putting these games as a whole is style over substance. Now, I’ve got a postgame plotline to do...

-hey who the fuck decided to make the method for triggering the looker plotline so complex?? they really didn’t want people doing this huh

-i would fucking die for emma and mimi

-how the hell does pokemon have not 1, but 2 incidents where an orphan fucks up a piece of historic art within 2 gens (even if the circumstances are very different)

-hey why is the looker plotline that dark?why the fuck did it just go off the rails?? what’s up with malva??? what the actual fuck is happening????

-hey so why the fuck is xerosic doing this?? like jesus christ this is horrifying

-NO??? DO NOT LET THAT FUCKER ANYWHERE NEAR EMMA, ESPECIALLY WHEN SHE DOESN’T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. LOOKER WHAT THE FUCK.

-jesus christ what was this??? it wasn’t bad but it was. weird.

#pokemon #rat chat

[sage-nebula]

tailsimp replied to your post: me thinking about the future of Pokémon:

Oh shit did he open his freakin’ mouth again???

He most certainly did. TL;DR:

He either doesn’t remember or never knew anything about the original games (/later games in the series) despite working on them. For instance, he said this: “But in terms of things that we've been able to do this time that we weren't at the time, so, you know, we couldn't have everyone coming together playing the game in the living room, you had to kind of play it individually at the time of the original games.” While Pokémon has always primarily been a single-player game series, the entire reason why the two-games-per-release format was introduced was so that players could trade and battle with each other using the Game Link Cable. The Game Link Cable necessitated that you were in the same room as one another, since the cables were not long enough to stretch very far away. Co-op, at least to a degree, has been in the series since its inception, thanks to the Game Link Cable idea provided by one Miyamoto Shigeru. Masuda went on to say later: “It's not really like a technical issue that we have with these it's just like you know, if you teach a pokémon Surf, and then you go out to an island, and then you have your pokémon forget Surf, and then you're stuck on that island.” There are numerous things wrong with this statement:

Surf is an HM, which means that you can’t just randomly delete it. You have to see the Move Deleter in order to have it removed.

Even in games where you could sell or throw away TMs, you could never do the same with HMs. So even if you forgot Surf somehow, you could just teach it to your pokémon again to get off the island.

If you somehow released your only water-type pokémon, you’re on an island. You can just fish for a new one.

All of this also insinuates you wouldn’t have a boat back to the mainland, or HM02 Fly. (I remind you that Surf is HM03.) He either forgot how these games that he works on operates, or he somehow never knew in the first place. Either way, he proved that he has no idea what he’s talking about when it comes to Pokémon. Unfortunately, it gets worse.

He more or less stated that there will not be puzzles (e.g. rock sliding puzzles) in Let’s Go, which could imply there will be none in future games. More specifically, the interviewer flat out asked about puzzles: “Are there still puzzles and challenges, things like Strength puzzles in caves, or have you moved away from that entirely now?” and Masuda answered with: “So when we tried to think about how kids these days generally play games, what came to mind was mobile games really. Games which you play for a short time, and perhaps you'll be moving between various games pretty quickly, so if it was a game that kind of takes about two hours to get into, we thought that perhaps people might get a bit bored and then decide to move on to a different game. [. . .] And in this age with so many games to choose from, we thought that we'd rather make something that was easier to progress through, and kind of tailor that playstyle to how we think that the playstyle has evolved over the years and how children are playing games now.” He never said “yes, they’re gone,” but he also never said “no, they’re not” which is worrying. Also, he talks about kids playing mobile games, but earlier in the interview he said: “So actually it was more that one of the main targets of these games is kids, who haven't had the opportunity to play Pokémon Go, because you know, they don't have a smartphone [. . .]” So which is it, Masuda? Are kids obsessed with mobile games, or are they not able to play them? Get your story straight.

When asked what he’d say to adult fans who have been fans for 20 years / want more of a challenge, Masuda said to just be content with what Let’s Go is offering. Specifically, when asked if we should wait for next year’s game, Masuda said that he would tell us about “combo capturing” wherein you capture the same pokémon over and over again to get bonuses (i.e. what Pokémon Go already is and what we don’t want), and also about the “151 Masters” postgame content, wherein you battle a “master” of each individual pokémon species to take their title. I.e., tedious, boring, filler that isn’t actually satisfying content.

He thinks players have about half a brain cell a piece. Going back to the topic of Surfing before, he tacked this onto the end of his answer: “So if that were the case then the player would just have to be swimming across the ocean themselves carrying their pokémon---and you're like, well, am I the pokémon? Or is my pokémon the pokémon? It would get confusing.” There are no words.

He doesn’t like it when people put effort into the game mechanics that are already there, like breeding. Specifically, when asked if he was thinking about making another Let’s Go game but set in Johto this time, Masuda answered that he might, depending on how these ones do (please, please let them fail), but then went on to criticize players who like to breed pokémon: “I know that a lot of people and fans have spent a lot of time hatching eggs, they've hatched . . . a lot of eggs, but we want them to kind of discover new ways to enjoy Pokémon games, you know I'd be really sad to think that for them, Pokémon is hatching eggs, so with this one we're trying to show them a different side of the game.” i.e. “Stop having fun, guys!!!”

This man not only not only seems to legitimately not understand how these games work, but he also seems to have actual disdain for those who like to dig into the core mechanics and make the most of it. Those who enjoy EV training can no longer do that since wild battles were taken out. Those who enjoy IV breeding can no longer do that since breeding is out. And while the excuse could be simply that these are Gen I remakes and as such breeding isn’t in because that wasn’t a feature in Gen I:

These are Gen I remakes in Gen VII, there’s no reason why the daycare couldn’t have a breeding function, and

He straight up, without provocation, insults those who like breeding all on his own.

All of this came about because the interviewer decided to ask why pokémon such as igglybuff and magmorter weren’t included, and then went on to ask about Johto. They didn’t even specifically mention breeding. But Masuda still felt it pertinent to say that he doesn’t like it when people spend a lot of time carefully breeding their pokémon, even though breeding is a core mechanic that has been in the games since Gen II. He seems to actively dislike those who take these games seriously and play them as such, and wants to instead turn them into nothing but gutted, pseudo-mobile garbage that doesn’t hold your hand so much as it pushes your stroller.

I earnestly wish he would leave Game Freak and go work somewhere else, on a different series. I’m sure he’d get hired. He’s got an extensive enough resume. I just want him to stop ruining something that has been a core part of my heart and soul for the past twenty years. Please. 

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