No you people simply do not understand ~ this shot fucking BROKE me. This is almost exactly like Gray Terminal. Eustass Kid had such a rough life and he deserves so much better. IDGAF that he went down the angrier path unlike Luffy. If y'all went through even a fraction of what this little Tulip had to go through, do you think you'd come out of it being even remotely mentally well? Or happy go lucky?
Who protected this baby boy besides another young child? Who provided them with shelter or basic fucking needs?? It makes me so angry that people constantly shit on him for losing to (and ONLY losing to) Emperors, like that's something to turn their noses at. Call him useless captain mid in front of me and I'll catch a charge idc, don't you dare disrespect him, less so in front of me.
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This might not be anything, but while writing about your fics, the way you have the characters' mannerisms down PERFECTLY got me thinking about mirroring...
There's a lot of it in 7 (Horii is a directorial genius etc etc), most of it more intentional than these probably are, but there's something so interesting about mirroring that takes the tone of a (relatively) fond memory, a familiar gesture, and inverts it in the way shown here.
OH I'M GLAD YOU'VE NOTICED THESE TOO I think I mentioned it months back (or I drafted a post 'bout it but didn't think it was anything noteworthy) but I always really did like how the Arakawa Family mimicked each other's mannerisms (also circling back to how Jo and Masato calling Ichiban 'Ichi' presumably after picking it up from Arakawa)!
Aoki actually does the same sitting gesture too! I went back to double check and skim through the rest of the game's cutscenes, and as far as I could tell unless I skipped a scene, it really is only these three that do this specific pose:
It's such a small detail but I love it immensely and it really does highlight their connections with each other and it drives me insane
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Hey, remember the awful audio quality back in C1, especially with the liveshows and the Skype-in episodes, and how nobody blamed the cast for having loud reactions or said that they should stop yelling and shouting despite the literal blowouts? Hey, remember when Percy used to take over every other group conversation and push for his ideas over the rest of the party’s suggestions, and people just went “Yeah, he’s being a dick, but that’s the type of person Percy is and Taliesin is doing a great job of role-playing as this character”? Hey, remember when Joe Manganiello came in with a clearly evil PC with his own agenda who ultimately ended up betraying the party, but no one complained that Joe was making the cast uncomfortable and should leave the show? Hey, remember when Kashaw was interested in Keyleth back in the early days of C1, and no one mocked him for pursuing a PC who wasn’t yet in any canon relationship but had hints of romance with other characters?
Gotta take another peek at those standards because they sure are looking doubled right now. But hey, I’m sure those are the only reasons why people are criticizing Erika so much for things that other cast members and guests get away with and are even praised for.
Now, this might be a wee bit of a controversial take, but the Critical Role cast are in fact adults who have been playing D&D on and off the Internet for a long time and who have invited many guests to play with them. They’ve spoken extensively about safe play environments as well as open communication both at and away from the table. If anyone was uncomfortable even for a minute with someone’s character choices or play style, they’d bring it up off-camera. If Matt thought a character concept wasn’t a good fit for the table or the story, he’d work with the player to develop something that was. Hell, Erika is a long-time personal friend whom most of them have played with before. If they didn't like how Erika played D&D, or weren't comfortable with something they did in-game, they're perfectly capable of having that discussion with each other as friends and professionals.
Y’know, you don’t have to like either Dusk or Erika, but you do have to examine how you’re talking about them because right now, a lot of the flack they get boils down to “I don’t like them for doing the exact same thing that white cast members are doing/have done, and I assume that because I dislike how they're playing D&D, they must also be making the cast uncomfortable.” And it does not matter whether you had any conscious racist intent or reasoning, because the impact of your words is singling out the sole nonbinary person of colour at the table and treating them as some kind of aggressive "threat" towards the white cast members, whom I will reiterate, are their long-time personal friends who invited them to play in this campaign in the first place.
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don't mind me, i'm just thinking about two characters being torn apart from each other unexpectedly and their resulting determination to find one another; the miles of terrain crossed, battles fought, letters written that cannot reach an unknown address, stubborn hope questioned by those around them; the reunion that maybe starts off slow, disbelief freezing previously eager legs, but then they can't simply be close enough, hands clutching, arms crushing, faces hidden in shoulders and joy muttered against familiar skin; " i never stopped looking for you. " " i knew you'd find me. "
i'm also thinking about two characters being torn apart from each other unexpectedly and that determination to find one another dwindling over the years, hope chipped away every passing season until they accept that they're lost and maybe always will be. they're miles apart but always on each others' mind, like a song they can't get out of their head -- life goes on, but they cannot forget, holding onto a memory perhaps to the frustration of those around them. maybe their paths nearly cross a few times, though they're none the wiser, until one day. one day they hear a familiar name, see a familiar face. or maybe they hear a familiar voice, pushing through a crowded street and searching, searching, searching --- all the determination returns, frantic as the beating of their heart. and there they stand, alive and well and older and different but still them.
i'm thinking about two characters being torn apart from each other and the connection between them that can't be broken by any force or amount of distance or time, and i am so so unwell y'all
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o shit i forgor to post this earlier !!
this stupid dork is so important to me what thefuck . hes a mess . he is bad at everything . he finds 2 friends and now he constantly hangs out with them . they all care about each other so much but none of them would ever admit that outloud . he is a mess of social anxiety and thus refuses to ever admit he is wrong about anything . he sometimes clips into the floor because ghost while hes asleep .
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five asking allison if she was okay after her fight with viktor makes me spiral because i feel like, given how perceptive he is, five knew that allison was bottling up her emotions and always had a tendency to do so and just never had the time/opportunity to talk to her about it (and he most likely didn’t know how to talk to her about it even if he did). it would’ve been great to see five acknowledge the fact that he was aware of allison constantly pushing aside her grief and trauma for the sake of everyone else but never really knowing the depth of that until her fight with viktor, especially since he has some great bonding scenes with the rest of his siblings for a majority of the season.
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I'm just sitting here, popcorn in hand, waiting for you to start going through Pedro's stuff and have your heart stolen by him 😌
omg skskks but here's the thing, and i just said this to @selfcarecap but i genuinely see him as like my cool uncle who'd teach me how to change a tire or go fishing with or help with like, carpentry or something 😭😭😭 like he seems like such a sweet man that i just want to be best pals with him 😭😭😭 like i'm not attracted to him that way sksksks
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Having mixed emotions about Star Trek (TOS) episode I watched yesterday to be honest. I mean the same applies to several of them, but this one is recent
Like there was that guy named Lazarus who apparently went insane having seen his "anti matter" reality version and got obssessed with the idea of killing him, however if identical people from these realms touch each other it'd destroy both universes. So when Kirk learned about it by getting to talk with version of Lazarus that (somehow) was sane and cared, this Lazarus offered to let him and another one go in the corridor between these universes where laws of universe don't quite work and then destroy his ship (that is also portal from one end of this corridor to another), so two Lazaruses would get stuck there in empty blue space and fight there for eternity.
Like... Okay, presuming there is absolutely 1000% no way to reason with the mad one and help his mental health... This situation sort of calls for mercy killing, no? If they'll suffer forever to save the universes, but universes would also be saved if Lazarus died (that'd also kill his alter I guess, like with two versions of the ships), why not just do that...? The "solution" offered sounds as a fate worse than death already. But Kirk follows through?
It is more the question to the character himself rather than to the writing tbh. Like, writing is right, they were just getting to show this heroic guy ready for a sacrifice for the sake of everyone and raising the issue that sacrificing one (two?) to save everyone else is not THAT simple from moral standpoint, there is no right solution (though Spock would disagree because 'one for all' is a logical exchange hfjyjgghj).
But it is just hard to imagine a person letting it happen, there is a limit to trying to be civil and not kill anyone except for self-defence; Kirk in general is also reasonable, he'd often spare even those who already killed some of his crew or civilians if there is a way to ensure they'll stop and diplomatic solution can be found. Mercy killing is morally debatable thing too, as it is having guts to decide for someone else whether their life (more like existence in most cases) is "worth" living considering their suffering - but also sometimes keeping your own hands clean from the burden of mercy killing is arguably more cruel. Lazarus is sacrificed in either case, and Kirk won't sleep well for several nights in either case, there is just... existing in actual hell or ceasing to exist, and latter sounds more merciful in this case.
Again, it is more disagreeing with Kirk as an isolated character than criticism to the plot and message, hence why I feel conflicted. Because this isn't a criticism, more just me sharing feelings. True that Lazarus himself accepted to carry this burden, it was his idea after all, and it is Kirk's right (and status quo of the character.. ) to respect that autonomous decision at the very least. Just that, I probably would rather NOT. That fate is something you won't wish on an enemy
(Also interestingly, why 'sane' Lazarus himself would not ask to be killed to save both universes? Why opt out for being stuck struggling with his alter? Is this possible they are both insane from antagonism to one another then, just in different ways?)
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