#or seen much of the gameplay. ever

[aureno]

transl. "i said i wanted chicken fingers, why'd you give the whole hand"

dumb doodles of these two the sequel electric boogaloo Fresh off the stove

#artdumon #doodle #art #fanart #dead plate #vincent charbonneau #rody lamoree #fun fact i have never played dead plate ever #or seen much of the gameplay. ever #im a poser But i love them so i might play #im not immune to cannibalistic gay men

[faceeeeee]

Would you guys kill me if I only started to post about Splatoon-

#funny thing is...know this us really funny. funniest shit I've ever seen umm i don't even play the game- #hol up a sec hear me out i don't have a switch nor nothing #I JUST REALLY LIKE THE OVERALL DESIGN AND THE GAMEPLAY LOOKS LIKE SO MUCH FUN- #And my obsession over Deep cut has resurfaced once more- #also- I'm not completely bailing on tadc #i just need a lil break from it- maybe post some snippets here and there..respond to asks.... #y'know the regular stuff #i just need to cleance my mid a bit with yet another hyperfixation #whilst also drawing my own ocs and mutual's ocs #faceee rambles

[postmakerkiwi]

🌈 Zephyr's Forest Floor - Huts Under Siege 💣

Look out!!! Sorry, but Zephyr's a bit busy right now, what with all these... birds. Just stay put for now; once that little dragon clears out the village, you can start heading out to the portal to Autumn Plains.

photos by CatbatQuartet

#JUST WANNA SAY THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IVE EVER SEEN REMAKE ZEPHYR AND IT'S INSAAAAAAAAAANE (/positive) #Good. FUCKING LORD the thematic cohesion in this compared to the original being just. #The upside-down chain giant lamps looked fine in Breeze Harbor but here with the implication #that before the Breezebuilders put them in place that Zephyr was kinda Even More Of A Barren Green Wasteland Than It Now Is #just made the world of the level outside of the context of gameplay feel so bereft of a unique identity. #TURNING THEM BORED-UP AND HOLLOWED OUT TREES INSTEAD IS JUST. GOD THAT MAKES SO MUCH /ACTUAL SENSE/ #Spyro The Dragon #Spyro Soundscapes #Ripto's Rage Soundscapes #Soundscapes #Spyro

[celepeace]

Sometimes I'm surprised that monster hunter isn't more popular among the creature design and spec evo corners of tumblr, at least the portions that also play video games, and then I remember that it's just about as hard as soulsborne games (I'd argue some specific entries are even harder) but doesn't have any of the atmospheric or story elements to attract people. It gets by on sheer gameplay alone and isn't a pvp game either. There is no way to make the game easier besides picking one of the less mechanically complex weapons and git gud. If it wasn't for the neat dinosaurs I couldn't think of a game less alluring to the average tumblr user

#a lot of other games it's a combination of escaping into another world with stuff like immersion and story #monster hunter as an ip adamantly refuses to elaborate about the world it takes place in #there is no overarching story and there's basically no lore with few exceptions e.g. fatalis but even that's really barebones #mh is just like. you're a hunter. now go kick the shit out of dinosaurs with your giant guts sword #there have been a lot of memes over the years about how it also doesn't have a tutorial it just expects you to figure it out #it has extensive ''explain how this works'' popups but they only exist for certain mechanics #and somehow half the time manage to communicate nothing of use #but actually important stuff like ''how do i use this weapon'' are not explained ANYWHERE within the game itself #and it has some of the most complicated mechanics i've ever seen in a real-time combat game i.e. charge blade and hunting horn pre rise #it just does the equivalent of giving you a gun you need a master's degree to operate at full potential and throws you to the wolves #and if you try to naively look up how some of the weapons work you get multi-page hard-to-parse essays #i STILL don't know how hunting horn works pre-rise because every time i try to read a guide my eyes glaze over #like there are perhaps few other franchises more unfriendly to an ''easy mode my beloved''-type person #not to rag on those people. there's nothing wrong with that but some games are just NOT going to work with you in that way #i pretty much only like it because i'm unfortunately a Tryhard Gamer #and the feeling of being a small human killing a dragon god by sheer skill and willpower is like crack cocaine to me #i would be more frustrated by mh's lack of any lore to speak of if it weren't for the gameplay injecting dopamine straight into my brain

[z0mbiekin]

Words can not express how excited I am for Fibbage 4

#jackbox #*zombie noises* #cookie masterson #Fibbage 4 #it took me from the middle of a critical thinking class to 2 AM just to make this and I feel proud I guess #if you’ve ever played any Fibbage you’ll probably noticed the jackalope so here take cookie as one I guess #jackbox fanart #if you’ve ever seen any of the party club streams where they show the gameplay you’ll know where this is from ;) #I feel like I added too much stuff #please I just want to play Fibbage any Fibbage right now help me I’m in biology class please *begins to froth at the mouth*

[caruliaa]

i hope the celling fan fall on yall 😒

#/ref obsessed with this phrase #anyway this is abt the fucingng obsession with the mario movie. dont wanna be a dick but omfg #the thing is like. a lot of the people just yk enjoy the fucking movie and thats fine and chill whatever #bowser sings one of my names at some point apparenty i dont have the right to complain whatever #but like. every person i trust to come at this with good faith has said that the movie is fun bc mario references and j being silly fun #whatever bla bla but other than thats it doesnt rly have much depth and like. isnt a superr great movie #but when everyone else comes at it with HOWW DAREE CRITICS NOT LIKE THE MARIO MOVIE ITS GOOD >:( its like. shut up #like you have to acknowledge when most of the joy of a movie comes from refernces not everyone gonna get #people arent going to treat it like its a masterpeice !! and thats okay whatever !!! #and the movie being fun without any other depth to it doenst automatically make it the most incredible movie ever #obvs the mario movies doesnt need to try to be emotional but like. you can make a movie thats but fun and emotionally impactful #at the same damm time !!!! its possible belive it or not !!! #the one of/most popular/well loved animated movie of last year and most popular movie overall of last year are both movies that #(while i havent seen one of them yet sorryy to the eeaaw girls 😶😶😶 will one day soon i prommy) #are both very fun and silly in places and known and loved for the emotinal impact they had on people cmon man !! #when the animated movie there is still in cinemas for many at the same time of the mario movie #the argument that the movie is fun or a kids movie so u shldnt expect any depth is dumb #the argument that its a mario movie and mario isnt a very plot heavy game makes more sense tho but i feel like #less ppl are making that for some reason? like it not no one but still. and the mario games are capable of depth sometimes #not to mention the reason having less depth with plot works is due to fun gameplay which idk if fun movie scenes can replicate fully #anyway enjoy the mario movie whatever have fun i literally love mario so fucking myslef and ik most ppl are like #being normal abt it and just enjoying a movie but man are the vocal minority just have fully put me off of it #my sibling is going tmrw and im not joining them bc im watching pibtlw w james+luce. but i also just dont wanna at this point #flappy rambles

[finmoryo]

I’ve never played the Sims 2, but there’s a ton of Lord of the Rings CC so I might just have to try it.

#i've heard the gameplay is good #although the cas might be a little lacking i'm not sure what it looks like #i've seen people play the game but i've only ever played 3 and 4 #i liked 3 a lot but it just took so long to load and i couldn't live without a mod like mc command center #i think there was one sorta like it but i didn't want to kill my poor game #i hated how you couldn't switch households and keep the wishes or whatever they were #the loading screen scavenger hunts were fun even it i got stuck on them for 10 minutes #i played medieval too but got sad i couldn't really do much involving relations between characters and it was a lot of quests #it was pretty fun but i stopped playing it

[hundredsofsmallbirds]

occasionally i will lose points and the peanut gallery will mock me quite relentlessly and frankly I'd like to see THEM play a round!!

#weird horse.exe #okay to reblog #the annual alex pyre replay #ive antagonized them. im about to watch the worst round of pyre gameplay ive ever seen #im in a system btw i dont talk abt it much lmao

[hugintheraven]

How Bethesda fixed Vampires without realizing it

So there's a LOT of takes on vampires across media, and most of them are radically different from each other. The Elder Scrolls series has an interesting version that I haven't seen anywhere else, that incidentally fixes a bunch of lore issues with vampires, and yet Bethesda hasn't ever really leaned into any of that.

So, the issue with vampires in large RPGs like Elder Scrolls games, D&D, etc, is that a world where various elements of character building are supposed to be balanced, vampires are heavy on the upside and light on meaningful drawbacks. So in Oblivion, Bethesda completely reworked their vampires, coming at it with a blank slate:

Vampirism is a 4-stage affliction, with each stage increasing the numerous benefits of being a vampire as well as the middling drawbacks. Stage 4 brings with it all humanoid NPCs recognizing you as a ravenous monster and attacking you, basically wrecking the game. And, this is the unique part, you reduce stages by drinking blood. Being a vampire is LESSENED by doing the most vampiric thing out there, it actively makes you weaker.

And this is great. From a gameplay perspective, you vanish below ground to kill zombies/robots/whatever, and you grow stronger as the dungeon goes on. But if you don't rush through it, or if it's large, you surface having ignored your hunger for several days and have to do a whole second quest to sneak into town at night and drink blood, where the only reward is to engage with the game again. It's a drawback in the gameplay sense rather than the stats sense. And it lets game designers throw the player against weak vampires in town early on, and face dungeons full of max-bloodlust monsters later once the player knows how things work.

Meanwhile, from a lore perspective this is also great. Suddenly, it's not that vampires have to be evil, it's that they have a choice. A good person who flees their family to hide in a cave is going to starve, turning into a ravenous, uncontrolled, extremely strong monster. Someone who's comfortable sneaking around town drinking blood, meanwhile? They never lose control. They walk in the sun. They're perfectly human. Or as human as anyone can be while the blood of their neighbors flows in their veins.

And Bethesda doesn't DO ANYTHING with this. People you talk to in-game just treat it as "all vampires are evil, why would you expect anything else", when they've created a world where vampire morality is so much more interesting. The few vampires who exist in civilization that you're not supposed to kill don't really discuss their condition at all. And there's plenty of evil vampires choosing to live in caves running societies of vampires, when that makes no sense compared to basically any other way of life they could set up.

Bethesda games are a masterful disaster, in this as in everything else.

#The Elder Scrolls #Oblivion #Skyrim #Vampires

[dan-crimes]

It's so funny trying to look back @ what my core knowledge of Sonic the Hedgehog games are and like I'm fairly sure I knew about the orca level, I knew abt the Chaos Emeralds and Sonic (obviously) as well as Amy having a crush on Sonic and Tails being like a little kid and I knew abt Eggman and that he wanted the Chaos Emeralds to power his machines and that he was in this egg shaped ship thing

Not sure about anything else tho like if I had any other knowledge of the characters (before joining the Internet) the only reason I remember that I knew that prior to anyone else telling me stuff besides my main irl source is bcuz I would imagine stuff abt Sonic and Friends based on certain songs and I know those were like the base components while imagining that stuff :P

#I only ever did it with Sonic? and it was like only a few songs it wasn't even like I was doing it with tons of songs #I guess I've always been particular about that kinda stuff the vibes gotta fit #anywayyy I might be bending my own rules a bit about the whole Sonic stuff #I'm watching like hours of people talking about Sonic but still not technically watching thru gameplay sooo #still technically don't know stuff... technically #I'm very much a come to my own conclusions type so I would actively have to see the gameplay for myself to have my own opinions #otherwise I'm just kinda adding information to my head bank #but not really forming an emotional attachment for it #since I'd gotta see it personally first hand #I trust people to tell me info but I don't trust people's opinions cuz watch 3 different videos with the same topic and they all have #different opinions about the same game lmao #plus in general I am easy to please so I might like more stuff that others don't and also in terms of characterization #everyone has their own way of viewing that shit too so the stuff I could see people sayin abt these characters could be just totally wrong #or right in their own sense! but maybe not MY sense :P #and maybe we'll never know 👻👻👻 cuz I'm trying to stay away from that still lmao #I will say finding out like super random shit that I've never seen ppl talk abt and prolly no one cares or thinks abt #and becoming really interesting in that to the point of wanting to draw it is very funny to me bcuz very typical of me huh #if you know the human Sonic comic just know that I do NOT like it but I do in the sense of like I could fix you #purely style wise but also they for sure could have told a better story there was some potential there I #I'm sure I swear Tumblr stop cutting me off ANYWAY maybe I'm not the best to rewrite it obviously but like I could still see ways #for it to be improved from a general standpoint lmao

[faintlyof]

also the bug where if you select a sideblog then go back to your main dash, you will still post to your sideblog is still there

how many times am i going to go check a sideblog, give it the thumbs up, then click the tumblr t to get back to the dash, make a post, then realize its posting to the sideblog and not the main blog. ><

if thats not a bug, then its a terrible feature

#tumblr #so many things i love are changing in terrible ways and i hate it #and i hate that i hate it so much #change is inevitable but i am always SO mad every time it happens #but like rhythm hive updated to season 4 #and it is so ugly and clunky and looks like a project sekai knockoff now??? #the gameplay is not as smooth as it was??? #the card organizer is the least organized mess ive ever seen? #its blindingly white and hurts my eyes?? #my phone overheats literally after 20 minutes playing #of which i mean 2 songs (8 min) and trying to get my collection to sort so i can sell stuff #its just awful #anyways #faint hates useless change what else is new

[certifiedcodbabygirl]

I'm 100% a Gaz girl. No doubt. I absolutely love him and his character.

What I don't like is how people write him most of the time. Idk what it is about the COD fandom but most of the writers give him like no personality. They chalk it up to:

-He's sugary sweet

-He never argues

-He's never angry

-He eats pussy like a god (that one's true to be fair)

-And he's hella submissive

And don't get me wrong, a few of those can be alright, but that's all I really ever see. Not to say anyone owes us writing, these are just my opinions and observations. I love all my fellow writers.

I'm just saying that it's okay to write him as pissed off. It's okay to write him as sarcastic and a lil hotheaded. It's okay to write him as someone who can lead and get shit done. Because all of those things have been shown in his character! I know a lot of people can't afford the actual games, but I highly suggest you at least go watch gameplays. His character is so much more than him being sweet. He's a guy with layers. Just like Ghost. Just like Soap. And just like Price.

I've seen maybe 3 fics where he's shown canonically and I love seeing those. Like I said, write what you want to write, I just wanna share my opinion. I think if I've noticed it, others might have too. And don't get me wrong, I love seeing him as a sweet guy and levelheaded guy when needed, but he can also not be. Let him have layers like every person does. Let him have flaws.

Show what makes him tick. Show what makes him lose his cool. Show what makes him calm down. Show what it takes for him to maintain his cool. Show his "what the fuck is wrong with you" reactions.

We all know he eats pussy good tho. That I will never disagree with.

#kyle gaz garrick #gaz x reader #gaz mw2 #gaz cod #kyle gaz x reader #kyle gaz smut #kyle garrick #call of duty modern warfare #cod x reader #call of duty modern warfare 2 #call of duty #cod

[inaconstantstateofchange]

Who Builds Theseus' Ship?

This ties in to a greater discussion about Larian's changes to the game post-Full Release, and whether you consider those changes to be a good thing or a bad thing. Personally speaking, the quality-of-life and gameplay mechanics improvements were appreciated, while the direct changes to characters and especially characterization were not so much.

In such discussions, I often see people downplaying the actual changes to characterization that have been made thus far as "minor" things, but I often see one of the most glaring examples of a characterization change left out, because so many people aren't even aware of it ever happening:

Halsin.

For those who don't know, if you were romancing Halsin at the time of the original full release, and for almost four months afterward, if you took him with you to Act 3's orgy scene in Sharess's Caress, he would open up about a situation in his distant past. He would tell you about how he had briefly been "something between guest, prisoner, and consort" in a drow House, and been kept there for three years before escaping.

He stated that this was something that happened "a long time ago", when he was "a foolhardy young druid", which would mean it would likely have been between ages 100 and 245 — or at minimum 105 years ago, and at (likely) maximum 250 years ago. He closed the discussion with a line that really struck me, and that gave me such an appreciation for his character, and for the writers who had created it:

The passage of time has a strange way of polishing even the most arduous of memories into precious keepsakes.

As someone in their late-20s, with a number of traumatic events in my past, this resonated so much both with my experience of those events – once harrowing and haunting, now just simple happenings that do not affect me the way they once did – and as an inspirational message, that hurt would not necessarily linger forever.

Not only that, I really valued the insight it gave into Halsin's personality, further showing him to be someone who was deeply complex and meditative, always looking for meaning and something to take away or learn from any experience. It also served to showcase the likely reality of the relationship elves and druids both would have to the concepts of time and memory. (Another example of this is the experience of Shadowheart's father compared to her mother at the hands of the Sharrans.)

I started playing the game almost immediately upon its release in August, and was intrigued by Halsin from the start. He was someone who was kind and heartfelt, but also very settled in himself and with a simultaneously rigid and very flexible moral code. It was that complexity that drew me to him, and I appreciated the inclusion of a character distinct from the Origin companions, all at close to the lowest point of their lives.

It was to my surprise to find that this appreciation for his character and perspective on his Act 3 revelation was not unanimous. As it turned out, there was a vocal group of people claiming that this writing was problematic, and that Halsin clearly didn't even realize he was actually traumatized, and that Larian needed to fix it. Not everyone joining in with this crusade had even played the game.

And, ultimately, in a pattern they have continued to follow, Larian responded. They fixed it. At the end of November, as part of Patch 5, they uploaded an edited version of the scene with new dialogue, where the player could express this "reality" to Halsin, in one of the most gallingly patronizing statements I've ever seen.

Sounds traumatic. You may need to reflect on that.

(If someone said this to me after I had opened up to them about my trauma and my experience of it to them, we would not be maintaining a cordial relationship afterward.)

Halsin's new response to these dialogue options is a cringing, self-deprecating cascade of how the player is of course right, and he should have known better, and time could "prove to be a trickster on one's recollections" and that perhaps he had "lost perspective".

Quite frankly, it is a completely different character answering, and an almost directly opposing overall message about the role of time in healing, and the path forward when it comes to trauma. No more "one day these events will not hurt to recall the way they do now". In its stead: "only healing that looks a specific way and follows a specific path is acceptable - anything else and you are simply a poor fool lying to yourself."

The following quote is from a comment left on a video of Halsin's original dialogue in that scene, before the changes, and is just one example of how much that representation meant to more than just me to see:

That said, Halsin is trauma recovery goals for me absolutely. Being able to remember without actually being triggered? Being able to fully and freely engage HOW ID LIKE TO instead of being fettered by trauma responses? Goals. I don’t know if I’ll ever get there 100%, we don’t get elven lifetimes irl, but his level of healing brings me hope.

Ultimately, this post is not meant to argue that you should agree with me that one is better than the other. More so, I want to highlight that this existed — for many people, this was their experience of events and characters, and that is not so easily redacted. And I also want to just state, for the record, that Larian's way of approaching narrative and characterization changes to their full-release game has been incredibly frustrating. I did not agree, in August, to play an Early Access game with the inherent understanding that any potential narrative aspect might change at any time. I purchased a full-release game, and immersed myself in the story and the characters, to get to know them as the writers had originally presented.

And when Larian makes these changes based on fan feedback, they are explicitly making decisions about which fans matter, and specifically, which fans matter most. Rather than allowing everyone to experience the story they decided to tell, and draw from it what they take away, and let that spark discussion and engagement, they made the decision to defer to some fans over others, and prioritize their experience of the narrative — something that, no matter how well-intended, is always going to leave a bitter taste in my mouth.

#voidling speaks #bg3 #bg3 meta #my meta #it feels insane to have to do archival work for a six month old game #but here we are #halsin #larian #larian critical #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 halsin #meta

[eladoobler]

does dialtown have a fanbase

#i have seen one(1) gameplay video ever of it #just how much has it influenced thing

[punksocks]

Astrology Observations: No.28

*just based on my observations, only take what resonates

(Sorry it’s been a minute, I got my time back then I got sick- like same day! I’m good now, thank god, but it was absolutely insane and everything has been going on in the world, my God)

-If your moon opposes your ascendant you may be known for making the wrong impressions on people (especially first impressions) at some point in your life

-Not the first time I said this but I feel like Libra Asc tend to need to balance out aspects of their life more bc of their houses having the opposite signs over them.

-On the other hand I feel like Aries asc have a very straightforward, sometimes less complicated world view bc of their houses lining up with their traditional rulers.

-Mars in determemt and fall (Libra, cancer, 12th house) really gives you a finite amount of stamina

-I feel like cancer venus/moons tend to wax the most poetically and romantically about the nostalgia they feel. Even stronger for Venus.

-Men with cancer placements be like: I didn’t know I was manipulating you into being nice to me until it was already happening (lmao oof)

-I noticed Aries and Scorpio Sun men/masc folks can get romanticized a lot, I think this is bc their identity is ruled by mars traditionally, so they tend to be assigned more masculine traits/act their traits out in a more “traditionally” (or even just comfortably) masculine way

-Aqua Sun/asc/venus usually have some features that makes their face really stand out I noticed (unique brow/nose/head shape etc) (idk why I haven’t seen this with moons as much)

-Signs in your 8th house may come off as mysterious or hard to understand

-You may find it really easy to vibe with people that have Sun conjunct your Asc

-I’ve noticed that a lot of Virgo mars may eat like really spicy or punishing foods (especially if the mars is in a fire house)

-Saturn aspecting your big 3 can help you age really well- depending on how well you take care of yourself (extreme example: dick van dyke, he’s almost 100 and he’s still jumping around with so much energy)

-Pisces placements can be like incredibly intelligent and yet still come off as a bit spacey (one of my favorite YouTubers used to head extra credits and he is SO SMART, like just a seriously huge capacity for knowledge but he sounds spacey when he does his chill gameplays and pieces things together unscripted lol)

-Jupiter square/opposition Sun can make you come off as overly pessimistic, it can also make you come off as optimistic at the wrong times (laughing at serious moments, etc)

-Taurus placements are so motivated by food, it’s so real (the amount of times I’ve had a Taurus sun/moon/mars not hear a word I was saying bc they were scoping out a restaurant? Countless lol)

-I notice a lot of rappers & musicians (especially the innovative ones) have major Pisces placements

-Aries moons get emotional fulfillment by winning what they chase after (Aries in big 6 tends to make you go after things in general too imo)

-I noticed sometimes Leo moon can make you a bit self centered, like in the most literal sense, you may have trouble understanding perspectives outside of your own

-Virgos and Geminis and 3rd/6th house placements have great memory but they tend to forget certain aspects. They tend to forget or mix up details. (My ex took like 3 years to remember my middle name beyond the first initial lol god; also, I always remember zodiac signs but not birthdays lol)

-I love how Joe Pera has a cancer Mercury and his comedy is like the coziest comedy I’ve ever heard, he even got his following bc his helping people fall asleep and just talking through his chill podcast (did not expect him to have like the most fire in his chart tho?? Wouldn’t have guessed lol)- Pisces Mercury and Mercury with hard aspects to Neptune probably have a cozy affect on others when they communicate with them too

#astro observations #astroblr #astro notes #astro community #astrology #cancer mercury #Virgo #Gemini #3rd house #6th house #leo moon #aries moon #taurus moon #taurus mars #taurus #Pisces #libra ascendant #aries ascendant #libra mars #cancer mars #mars in 12th #cancer venus #cancer moon

[isaegi]

WHAT LOVE CAN DO

feat. isagi yoichi and itoshi sae (seperate). gn! reader

includes: states how isagi wants you carnally, what’s new. sae being a megacunt (complimentary). both are very much in love. pining pining pining, established relationship! college au; characters are 20+

how i think they would look at you because who doesn’t love knowing what it feels like being wanted, desired, and then some. all inspired by this line from the literary genius that is nizar qabbani ♡

ISAGI YOICHI

Isagi can’t fight the wicked smirk that tugs on his lips whenever his eyes flit over to where you are seated on a bench at one of his football matches.

It’s simply a habit of his that he can’t break.

To you, the way Isagi looks at you like he’s ready to do your bidding at any given moment is all you’ve ever known.

However, to everyone else? 

People can immediately pick up on how the atmosphere around him gets a little warmer, a little more… unrestrained.

As if they’ve walked into something they shouldn’t have, and they’re subjected to sitting through it anyway because he can’t and won’t fucking stop (can you tell he wants you carnally...).

His focused, intense gaze always manages to easily find yours whenever you’re seated on the sidelines of his training scrimmages. And there’s something about the way he looks at you like he wants to be seen. Pools of blue silently plead for you and your attention, and when you finally give it to him, your heart pathetically flutters at the sight. 

From where you’re seated, you can see how his tongue pokes the inside of his cheek, giving you an upward nod once he notices your eyes on him. He’s a little flushed from all the running he’s been doing, but that only adds more emphasis to the heated non-verbal communication between you two.

And because Isagi is so focused on you, you, and you, he doesn’t think twice when a tall, lean figure effectively obstructs his view. 

“You’re actually disgusting,” Rin mutters under his breath, shoving his way past his senior to kick at the soccer ball that was once underneath his foot. “Get a grip,” he tacks on for good measure before he dribbles away with Isagi’s ball.

“Wh—!? Hey!”

ITOSHI SAE

Your boyfriend, Sae, does not stop staring at you whenever you’re speaking. Especially when you two are in a setting where perhaps there’s a third party you’re conversating with is involved.

It’s a basic courtesy to look at a person when they’re talking, right? But with Sae, it’s different.

So, so different.

The way Sae watches you whenever you speak is unsettling. But not in the sense that it was creepy, far from it, actually. Rather, you find yourself being smothered with an emotion that can only be described as yearning for the unreadable expression that lingers on his face when he looks at you. 

Every so often, his eyes would slide down to trail the outline of your nose before his sights rested on your lips, staying there for a moment, he settled his focus back on your eyes again.  

Pressing your hand against his cheek to turn his face away from you, “Enough!” 

“What.”

Whenever interviewers manage to catch you before Sae can swiftly usher you out of the stadium or move you behind him like he’s going to block you, and then maybe they’ll magically forget that you’re there, they manage to squeeze a few answers out of you.

And they absolutely have a field day with it because not only is it one of the few instances where they hear Sae become a bit more talkative (albeit definitely not to/with them), but they capture him wearing an expression that isn’t his usual flat and apathetic resting face. 

The host for a local sports station shoves her microphone in your face, a crazed smile etched into her expression as she practically shouts your name. “What did you think of Itoshi’s gameplay on the field today!?”

“I think Sae, uh, played really good!” You’d say, nodding vigorously at the camera, not really familiar with the whole post-match interviews spiel.

Because why would you be?! You’re not even a player.

“That’s all?” He’d ask, inadvertently pressing you for more details, teasing you to say more about him.

“I— You—” You look to Sae for help, but he’s absolutely fucking useless because he makes no signs of helping you whatsoever with your scramble to find the words you were looking for. Dick.

“He— well, you know…” You shrink under the intensity of his stupid, stupid, yet charming gaze that was only reserved for you. “He’s a good player…”

You hear him exhale a breathless chuckle at how squirmish you were being, it was so unlike you.

And you can tell he’s having fun with this, which is why you abruptly cut it short by stating your departure with a curt, “I’m leaving!” before you swiftly turn on your heel. Slinking away from them with your heart hammering boisterously in your chest.

There’s a beat of silence before both the interviewer and camera turn their sights on your boyfriend next…

“So, Ito—”

Only to find out he had already left with you.

#blue lock x reader #bllk x reader #isagi x reader #isagi yoichi x reader #sae x reader #sae itoshi x reader #itoshi sae x reader #once again posting this at an inappropriate hour because i have free will #isaegi