#raven plays ace attorney

[everybody-loves-purdy]

Darkstar, at the gathering: i find it extremely odd that you dismiss what happened at the Moonstone, Oakstar. Your daughter, medicine cat and daughter in law are injured, and you don’t seem worried about it. Especially because, everytime we ask Mapleshade about her testimony, she changes her statement.

I read this in a Phoenix Wright voice

Oakstar is just at a loss for words and hastily tries to find an excuse to end the gathering

#I have recently discovered the joys of ace attorney and so it’s very on my mind lol #I haven’t played the Apollo justice stuff though because it’s not on the switch rip #anonymous #au #Raven and oak au #purdys au

[siblingshowdown]

Sibling Showdown!!!

This showdown consists of 64 sibling sets facing off against each other, as well as a few one-off polls of sets who didn’t make the actual bracket but who I wanted to include in some capacity.  Polls will last a week.  Round One of section A will go live on April 16, with section B going live the day after, section C the day after that, and section D the day after that.

Propaganda is allowed!  I just ask that it be kept positive.  Argue for your faves instead of against someone else’s.  Every sibling set who made it in the showdown is there because someone wanted them to be, so keep it kind.

Will the winners be the siblings that love each other the most?  That are most capable of killing other sibling groups with their bare hands?  That have the most sibling swag?  It’s up to you to decide!  You get to choose the manner and parameters you judge each sibling set for.

Section A:

Edward and Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist) vs. Seiko and Ryuunosuke Tanaka (Haikyuu!!)

Wirt and Greg (Over the Garden Wall) vs.  Han Yoojin and Han Yoohyun (The S-Classes That I Raised)

Shigeo and Ritsu Kageyama (Mob Psycho 100) vs.  Ruby Rose and Yang Xiao Long (RWBY)

Sans and Papyrus (Undertale) vs. Tanjiro and Nezuko Kamado (Demon Slayer)

Jiang Yanli, Wei Wuxian, and Jiang Cheng (Mo Dao Zu Shi/The Untamed) vs. Hikaru and Kaoru (Ouran High School Host Club)

Vi and Jinx (Arcane) vs. Temari, Kankuro, and Gaara (Naruto)

Sokka and Katara (Avatar: the Last Airbender) vs. Maya and Mia Fey (Ace Attorney)

Vash the Stampede and Millions Knives (Trigun) vs.  Lucas and Claus (Mother 3)

Section B:

Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo Hamato (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) vs. Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack Parr (The Incredibles)

Yakko, Wakko, and Dot Warner (The Animaniacs) vs. Jazz and Danny Fenton (Danny Phantom)

Huey, Dewey, and Louie (Ducktales) vs. Sitka, Denahi, and Kenai (Brother Bear)

Dion, Frazie, Razputin, Mirtala, and Queepie Aquato (Psychonauts) vs. Skipper, Rico, Kowalski, and Private (Madagascar)

Eda and Lilith Clawthorne (The Owl House) vs. Snap, Crackle, and Pop (Rice Krispies)

Bonnie and Clemont (Pokemon X and Y) vs. Annika and Brietta (Barbie: Magic of Pegasus)

Candace, Phineas, and Ferb (Phineas and Ferb) vs. Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup (Powerpuff Girls)

Nani and Lilo Pelekai (Lilo and Stitch) vs. Kai and Nya (Lego Ninjago)

Section C:

Maddie and Buck Buckley (911) vs. Steven, Shirley, Theo, Luke, and Nell Crain (The Haunting of HIll House)

David and Alexis Rose (Schitt’s Creek) vs. Dennis and Dee Reynolds (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia)

Jonathan Byers, Will Byers, and El Hopper (Stranger Things) vs.  Prue, Piper, and Phoebe (Charmed)

Luther, Diego, Allison, Klaus, Five, Ben, Viktor Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy tv) vs. Mary, Billy, Freddy, Pedro, Eugene, and Darla (Shazam! movies)

Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Damian Wayne, Cassandra Cain-Wayne, and Duke Thomas (DC comics) vs. Simon and River Tam (Firefly)

Elliot and Darlene Alderson (Mr. Robot) vs. Kara and Alex Danvers (Supergirl TV)

Connor, Kendall, Siobhan, and Roman Roy (Succession) vs. Sharpay and Ryan Evans (High School Musical)

Thor and Loki (Marvel Cinematic Universe) vs. Sarah and Felix (Orphan Black)

Section D:

Maedhros, Maglor, Celegorm, Caranthir, Curufin, Amrod, and Amras (The Silmarillion) vs. Antigone, Polynices, Eteocles, and Ismene (Greek Mythology/Sophocles’s Theban plays)

Coronabeth and Ianthe Tridentarius (The Locked Tomb) vs. Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie (The Chronicles of Narnia)

Nico and Bianca Di Angelo (Percy Jackson and the Olympians) vs. Declan, Ronan, and Matthew Lynch (The Raven Cycle/The Dreamer Trilogy)

Alec, Isabelle, Max Lightwood, and Jace Herondale-Lightwood (Shadowhunters) vs. Lark and Sparrow Oak (Dungeons and Daddies)

Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events) vs. Linus and Lucy Van Pelt (Peanuts)

Boromir and Faramir (The Lord of the Rings) vs. Bellamy and Octavia Blake (The 100)

Katniss and Primrose Everdeen (The Hunger Games) vs. Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March (Little Women)

Kiryu Kazuma and Nishikiyama Akira (Yakuza) vs. Cain and Abel (the Torah/the Bible)

#mod note #tumblr poll #tumblr tournament #tumblr bracket #sibling showdown #sibling tournament #if someone knows where i can make a better visual of the bracket that you can actually read please let me know #i'm struggling here #but here we are! #a few of these first rounds are going to greatly disappoint me when my faves lose #but figuring this out was tedious without also trying to rig it to my favor

[bestfictionalplant]

Just curious, what are the 5 so far that aren't making it in (or will that be covered in the stats post)?

I'm so excited!

ok ok ok

so there's 2 outright disqualifications (terf book mandrakes and flapjack TOH (its carved from wood, it's not a plant, sorry))

the actual ones that I'll be playing with later are:

Charley from Ace Attorney (on account of being a real world plant)

Potted plant from Persona (As with Charley)

Pine Tree from Percy Jackson (As above)

Gansey's Mint from The Raven Cycle (As above)

and um... Percy Jackson spoilers under the cut, im laughing a lot rn

look. its so funny. and im so sorry. but Nico Di Angelo is simply a boy who was temporarily turned into corn. if he was Permanently a corn plant (HE GOT TURNED INTO A PLANT ANOTHER TIME AS WELLLLLL) i'd be like ye sure, Nico Di Angelo. but im so sorry PJO fandom. but nico di angelo will get his day, dont you worry

#asks

[itzsleepintime]

"Hey.... Don't let go, okay?"

Hello, everybodyyy!!! This is my side blog (I'll consider putting my main blog here in the future), which is going to be for roleplaying, and a bit of art then and there!

Here's something about me :]

You can call me Jayden/Jay/Sleepy!

(INFP | Pisces | Atheist | Maladaptive Daydreamer | hypersomniac | selective mutism | stimmy | energetic | sensitive)

I'm an [age regressed!] adult with ADHD/who is Neurodivergent! I consider myself a hikikomori, asocial fella who suffers from social anxiety T0T also a bit touch starved hehe 👉👈

My regressed age is about 7-10! But my true age is 19 ^^

I'm genderfluid, and use any prns (She/He/They)! I'm also Greyromantic, Demisexual, Polyromantic and Bicurious!

I'm in a constant state of sleepiness, and a bit of a softie, who likes plushies, fresh/flowery/soapy/baby scents, soft blankets, feeling clean and warm, and comforting pampering ^^

I love to draw, read and listen to music in my free time! Oh, and play with my favorite plushie lol XD

My favorite animal is raven! My favorite color is red, white and black! My favorite food/drink is pasta, chocolate and coffee! My favroite music genres are classical/dubstep/breakcore/vocaloid/electronic (im srs yall i like everything💀)

Some of my icks/dislikes: feeling cold, being in public, talking when I'm sad/angry, bugs, feeling tired, (which is always😒), little children, people touching my plushie, feeling lonely, loud noises/yelling, people being inconsiderate/non-understanding/judgemental, feeling dirty

It will mainly be self insert/OC roleplays with other characters! Slowly but surely, I will be introducing some of my characters as time goes, who I ship with and which fandom they belong to! It will be either platonic or romantic themed!!

Fandoms I'm interested in for roleplaying: Transformers, Cookie Run, JJBA, OMORI, FNAF, Call of Duty, Sonic The Hedgehog, LOTR, Skyrim, Dragon Ball, Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen, Attack on Titan, Friday Night Funkin', Madness Combat, Deltarune, Naruto, Chainsaw Man, Monsterverse, ENA, Marvel, The Stanley Parable, HALO, One Punch Man, TADC, Fran Bow, Little Misfortune, Honkai SR, Pizza Tower, Ace Attorney (yes, a long list i know💩)

WARNINGS!!!

⚠PROSHIPPERS /COMSHIPPERS /RACISTS /LGBTPHOBICS /HATERS /ZOOPHILES /PEDOPHILES /FURRIES (SORRY) /TOXIC PPL /SEXISTS /NAZIS /TERFS /ZIONISTS /AI ART USERS DO NOT INTERACT!!!

⚠ I have age regress, so I may act brash and not so 'adultey' as I'm expected! the tone I use may be a bit too energetic, so, if you find it annoying or uncomfortable, feel free to block me!

⚠ I cuss a lot!

⚠ I can be quite forgettable! If I happen to ghost you/forget to answer/don't remember some of the things you said, I'm really sorry, it was never my intention🙏

⚠ My OC and S/I lore is very... Unrealistic, which means, they are usually non-human and/or immortal beings with a bit of overemphasized powers and such. If that bothers you, feel free to block me!

⚠ If you are easily triggered by dark themes such as d3ath/overal depression things, do not interact, it's for your own safety. Out of coping mechanism, I might reblog some jokes about those themes, so, again, feel free to block me if that is triggering for you!

⚠ Because of that, this blog is 15+!!!

⚠ It is a safe space for any LGBTQ+/Neurodivergent person, and any Race/Ethnicity/Age!

⚠ Sometimes, I will post my OC/Canon art here! If OC x Canon/Canon x Canon art bothers you, no hate, just block please!

RULES!!!

⚠ This blog is SFW!!! However, since I am an adult, I might be following blogs who can be BOTH SFW AND NSFW!!! I WON'T be posting anything NSFW here, but, if you are a minor, please do not interact with them, be warned.

⚠ I won't do SA, incest, minor/adult, zoophilia, etc.

⚠ If I didn't answer your ask, that only means two things: I deleted it because I felt uncomfortable answering it, or I'm too busy to answer it.

⚠ If you approach with pure hate/toxicity and act like a creep, you will be blocked and/or reported.

⚠ No drama, please. I don't want to be part of anything related/unrelated to me. Trying to start any drama results to an instant block.

⚠ Do not spam in asks/messages. Have in mind that I, and any other roleplayers, have life outside these blogs, and can be busy quite a lot if it happens.

TAGS!!!

(Nothing here yet!!! It will be updated in the future!!!)

[Thank you for reading <3]

#intro post #introduction #pinned intro #introductory post #oc rp #rp blog #roleplay #roleplay blog #original character rp #comfort rp #roleplaying #looking for moots #looking for mutuals #oc x canon #oc x character #pinned post #pinned info #about myself #about my blog #safe space #age regression #age regressor #safe place #sfw agere #sfw blog #safe blog #ask blog #roleplay account #multifandom rp #multifandom roleplay

[twisted-wonderland-but-gayer]

[Defense] Lawyer Yuu because I actually just started watching people play Ace Attorney myself and I am recently refreshed! Yuu is ambiguous on age but is hinted to be about Phoenix's starting age (20/21), because a lawyer would be an adult out of school... and that's Ace Attorney logic, a young lawyer...

Swapping between third and second person because I'm speed typing, but Yuu is still Yuu.

Yuu can not believe he was getting shaken around by a bunch of children! Not only had he been dragged into an alternate reality full of magic and fire breathing cats, but he was brought back to school! Night Raven College... when he heard the word college, he almost froze from shock and bewilderment.

How unlucky, especially with his student debts still going in his past world. He was determined to leave in the beginning, and Crowley was all too quick to agree, because of his general age difference with all the student body. Because of reasons unknown, and all identification except his Attorneys Badge taken from him, Yuu was forced to settle... for going back to college...

Thankfully, seeing Leona in the last situation with your gaggle of fellow students put you in a better mood. At least someone else was also your age, making this less awkward.

But you were unthankful for a specific gaggle of students that had attached themselves to you on the first day, breaking a chandelier. You could have flashed your badge, but you knew Crowley had all the power over your no ID person. Riddle had been much easier to deal with as the student held respect for you getting into Law School, and was conflicted when you basically called out his abuse of power and how these students could probably file harassment charges.

Well, that was until you realized you still had no proper ID, so all trials would be trials with Crowley as a judge... no thank you...

Oh, Chapter 3 is going to be hell, especially as this is what you trained for! If you had your ID and anyway to call the police, you could have a trial to put Azul at least in juvenile detention. But you don't. You have to constantly remind yourself that your barely able to do much at all, barely able to go to gym class because it's just you running laps while everyone flies. And so, watching a slimy 16 year old hold over 250 students hostage as you start to sign over your temporary living arrangements...

You pause before you actually sign. "Wait. May I have a magnifying glass? Before you get offended: I'm just making sure that there's no fine print. Also, I'll be drawing a line at the bottom so you can't update the contract. I've had that happen three times on autopsy's in the span of months."

Azul and Jade, curious as they are about laws unironically, hand you a sea glass magnifying lens shaped like a shell. For now, it's all you can do.

... Gosh, do you miss the Prosection... at least with him, your not wondering if the next student will stab you. Or anger Grim. Or vandalize your items. Or Overblot...

IM FOAMING ATBTHE MOUTH WITH THIS. TY SO MUCH.

ALSO imagine how Riddle is since he wants you be a lawyer. He's just so excited to ask questions and Yuus like "I had to interview a fucking parrot."

#not writing #not requests #crudcifer #CRUD UR SO GOOD #yuu

[pad-wubbo]

"My New French Teacher"

Pencil sketch / Infinite Painter.

I've been playing "Benjamin Hunter: Ace Attorney Investigations" in French, and l'ambassadeur Quercus Alba is such a good teacher. The bottom image is a list of words I've learned from him.

I've redrawn his medal-fiddle sprite full-body, and exaggerated his features so his cape becomes tree roots, his hair branches out into an actual oak tree, and he has the white raven symbol on his jacket.

Coloured version is ablaze.

#traditional art #sketching #ace attorney #redraw #quercus alba #treeman #francais #turnabout ablaze #fiery

[pirdmystery]

franziska von karma

franzy my beloved!!!

first impression — you know i honestly don’t really remember, when i first got into ace attorney i was so ravenous for fan content that i’m pretty sure my first impression was from art and fic before i played aa2 i just took it for granted that i was gonna love her

impression now — i was right! i love her so so much. style queen bastard woman. when will she return from war (be in a new aa game)

favorite moment — here is where i risk something actually unpopular by outing myself as a fan of the anime 😭 but my honest first thought here was in the babymode anime ep where the von karmas are at the mall and baby fran goes “i wanna wait for miles!!” it’s just SO CUTE it killssssss meeeeee esp in contrast to what their grown up relationship is like. to see tiny fran talk about her “little brother” like that. the anime has a ton of problems but it has so many superb character moments and giving us little sib things like that that build on their canon relationship is just. so so great.

idea for a story — these asks are reminding me of how many abandoned aa wips i have… anyway i have this short little one of she and edgeworth at a cafe in berlin in the rain. nothing really happens it was kind of just an atmospheric character study of the two of them. i remember liking it 🥺

fav relationship — obviously she and edgeworth are the siblings of all time. there is never enough to say about that. but. i am such a huge huge huge fan of she and phoenix being worsties. everyone please send me your fran and phoenix worsties content. their investigation together during bridge to the turnabout is like my absolute favorite thing in the series. the mlm wlw hostility is so strong and it’s so funny how they’re both antagonistic to each other the whole time while still being clear that they don’t like. ACTUALLY resent each other at all and they both want to solve the case. and they both care about that miles edgeworth guy.

unpopular opinion — i’m sorry that my answer to this is always “i don’t care for their most popular ship” but that’s what i’ve got here too. not a big franmaya fan. i don’t have any specific objections to it and i’ve seen some really cute art i just don’t personally see it myself and in most fics they’re just there to pair the narumitsu spares. now fradrian on the other hand…

fav headcanon — i just love thinking of her as this big shot cool ass jetsetting interpol agent. she’s got pied-à-terres in so many countries. she flies trucy to milan for a shopping trip even tho trucy doesn’t even wanna buy anything she just hangs out with her cool aunt.

#thank you!! #ask #franziska von karma

[musashi]

A Rabid, Song-by-Song Analysis of Turnabout Musical by Someone Who Knows Jack Shit About Music

TRACK 5: Justice For All

Okay, I wouldn’t do that to you guys. Two tracks today!

JUSTICE FOR ALL!!!!! This is Mia’s song! Mia’s solo! Honestly a song that I did not have a lot of feelings about until TAAAM came out and it really, really grew on me. I’m simply in love with how powerful the piano is on this song—it pairs well with Decree of the Prosecutor later, which purposefully pulls from this song. They’re like sisters. To me.

The soft way Sarah sings ‘defeated / mistreated’ here in the beginning gives me some sort of ASMR. It’s just so gentle, so quintessentially Mia. Sarah’s got this incredible way of embodying that softness when the lyrics call for it but then also just launching into the most powerful, strength-embodying performance one can imagine during others. I get fully body shivers whenever I hear the way she sings “I fight for truth,” with that soft, breathy half-laugh trailing after it like a little comet tail. 

I can’t talk about Justice For All without talking about the lyrics that personally broke me and probably anyone else who has strong feelings about Ace Attorney:

And when faced with tribulation, I think of my own inspiration He taught me to always hold my stance

Would you believe me if I said I listened to this song like a hundred times before I actually turned my brain on and paid attention to these lyrics? And registered that they are about Diego? A character I deeply adore? I never claimed to be anything other than an idiot. 

Still, they’re probably my favourite part of the whole song. I talked about this a little bit back when I was talking about how TM uses music from the AA series, but I want to talk about it a little more broadly, now. My favourite thing about TM, I think, is how subtle it is. The best writing advice I myself was ever given was to assume intelligence in your audience—to not overexplain, to leave them their crumbs to put together themselves. 

When I wrote my first big novel-length story, I made a decision—I was going to act as though it already had an established fanbase. The kind of fanbase that a hollywood writer or bestselling author would have. The kind of fanbase you see in tumblr ravenously dissecting every single frame of and writing long, rambling analyses about what it all means. Every ounce of my body rejected this—the urge to overexplain things and handhold so that my readers would see and appreciate the intentional weaving of themes and foreshadowing and parallels was so very captivating. But it would not have been as good of a story as the one I wrote, and wouldn’t you know it—my eventual fanbase made note of most of them anyways.

Since I’ve been given that advice, it’s always what I think about in relation to media. Does the media allow me, the viewer, to piece things together myself? Does it allow me my room to analyze and dissect and pry apart the text, develop my own interpretations and thoughts, and discover these little nuggets on my own? When the answer is yes, I find that I often enjoy the story much more.

TM is a masterclass in subtlety. As previously mentioned, it doesn’t go all in with relying on the music from the games and instead focuses on crafting its own identity as a separate thing musically. That, then, makes the times it does reference the game soundtrack very very special! 

The same goes for these lyrics here—they are quick and short, and then we swiftly move on. For people who have not played the games, or who have maybe only played the first installment, there is a joy in trying to take apart who Mia might be talking about here. The truly ravenous might go digging deeper, into game lore they’d previously not known or cared about. And some people—like me, for ages—might just ignore them entirely. Until I stopped, and then I got REALLY EXCITED.

This is one of my favourite things TM does. It makes the story stronger. And it makes these long fucking posts of mine possible.

Alright, tangent over, back to the music!!

Some attorneys are dishonest, they’ll do anything to win

Another one of my favourite lyrics in this song, and another intentional piece of motif-setting. What this musical does with the phrase “anything to win,” makes me a little insane. If you were paying attention during my Overture analysis you’ll know that this is the title of Manfred von Karma’s image song, but it’s also a set of words that is kind of baked into the musical itself to set him as this looming presence lurking there in the shadows of the first act. Once you’ve listened to the musical at least once, it is a phrase that always invokes him in your mind’s eye. It’s wonderful. I love him.

Anyways, this is Mia’s song, I somehow made it about the evil old bitch again, I have kind of a knack for doing that. I don’t know that I have much else to say, though. I really adore how even though this song kind of sets itself up to end on this strong crescendo, with Sarah just expertly hitting another one of those high notes, it’s actually oddly soft as it ends. Both her voice and the piano notes as it fades out kind of just sound like she’s draping a warm jacket around my shoulders and sending me on my way. And sure enough… this is technically the last song we get (in the present day) before The Horrors Begin, and I am… not crying. 

A lovely sendoff for a lovely character. I’d say rest in peace, Mia, but it’d be awfully bold of me to assume she won’t be back.

[Turnabout Huh? What do you mean there’s an Ace Attorney Musical?]

<- Track 4 | Track 6 -> (coming soon!)

#turnabout musical #pwaa #ace attorney #wordy wendy #wendy rambles #colossal waste of time

[godlovesdykes]

having so much fun in my archive tonight. i joined tumblr in august 2013 having already spent a few months scrolling through my friends’ tumblrs before i was allowed to get an account. my first post was a supernatural post despite never having watched the show. my friends thought i was a poser. i was into sherlock, hp, doctor who, welcome to night vale, and lotr/the hobbit (it was between the first and second hobbit movies).

sometime in october 2013 i started reading homestuck, and on may 31 2014 i caught up (this was during the gigapause). i cosplayed rose in novermber 2013.  i participated in the homestuck shipping world cup in summer 2014 on the arasol team. game over, in october 2014, was my first live hs update, and i followed the updates till the end two years later.

by mid-2014 i was starting to like the avengers and especially stucky. later that year i watched in the flesh. sometime in december i discovered les mis by way of batcii’s fanart. i also read all the young avengers comics in the latter half of 2014. i cosplayed meulin in november.

in february 2015 i was still posting sherlock, but it was totally replaced by les mis by april. i read the song of achilles in march. sometime before may 2015 i got into the marauders, but i can’t pinpoint it because i was already posting hp before then. that summer i finished the first volume of les mis and read the first three books of the raven cycle. in the fall i participated in the r/s games and cosplayed enjolras and davepetasprite^2. hamilton first appears on my blog in november, and i got into the french revolution around the same time. december was star wars tfa, the first star wars movie i watched.

i read the iliad in march 2016. in july i discovered voltron, once again through batcii fanart. i was outed to my parents sometime between april and october 2016. that fall i watched yuri on ice as it came out. in november i cosplayed elder mckinley from the book of mormon and remus lupin. started listening to taz around november and caught up during the suffering game in early 2017. played my first ace attorney game in june 2017. sometime that year i started id’ing as a lesbian. looking through my phone photos, this was also the year i started learning abt historical fashion, although it wasn’t a major interest yet. i also took my first classics course, and my cosplay that year was a maenad.

my last voltron post was in january 2018 and i graduated high school in june. my 2018 cosplay was god tier rose lalonde, which is a fun callback to five years previously. my halloween costume was antigone. gonna stop there with the retrospective but that was very fun. i like placing events in my life in the context of where my energy was going at the time. coming up on ten years here this august.

#i wonder if there's a site where you can make parallel timelines for like world events #i would love to map this all out with what grade i was in/my style/life events/where i lived etc #screams into the void #save

[lunylune]

WIP tag game!

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it. tagged by: @steviesbicrisis thank you for tagging me and cursing me with the knowledge of the amount of WIPs I have stored away… I might need an intervention -_-

I split them in “posted” and “not posted” because there is 25!!! of them!!!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Not posted:

Rainfall, a silent song (Lord of the rings)

The gardener’s query (Lord of the rings)

A slice of apple pie (Good omens)

You are practically perfect in every way, my darling (good omens)

Nightlight (Rise of the guardians)

A forgotten family of three (Rise of the guardians)

Pink is the new blonde (Phoenix Wright: Ace attorney)

Riddle solvers (Phoenix Wright & professor Layton)

I put a spell on you (descendants)

A whole new world (descendants)

When the king falls (Maleficent)

Family found: Champions (Hollow knight)

Family found: Dreamers (Hollow knight)

Waning and waxing (avatar the last airbender)

Ghost play to an audience (pokemon sword and shield)

Our family never fit the mold (Resident evil 7 & 8)

Seven Eight Nine (Stranger things)

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Posted (and I’m so sorry): 

Elf of Erebor (Lord of the rings)

The tale of the glass-weaving songbird (Lord of the rings)

Alone together (subnautica)

Family found: What remains in Hallownest (Hollow knight)

Souls are for the living, and we are alive (Detroit: become human)

Through the crack in the wall (Encanto)

Rainbow raven (Maleficent)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

And I wonder why I never get any of it done… What am I doing!?!?!?! Insanity!!!!

Feel free to ask me anything :D About any of them :DDD

Tagging: @troupe-of-the-lost if you want to, idk how this works '^_^

#hollow knight #subnautica #stranger things #maleficent #descendants #rise of the guardians #resident evil 7 #resident evil 8 #phoenix wright #that's where I'll leave it #people might think its spam as it is #fanfiction #ao3 #i might need help #help. me. #good omens

[bunnyheaded]

vi / luce 𖥔₊୭ ˖ twenty - one, he / fae.

latinamerican ( brasilian ) | genderfluid ( tme ).

layout creds. ♡

interests include, but are not limited to:

genshin impact, honkai star rail, punishing: gray raven, p5 ( haven’t finished the game yet ), ace attorney ( all games + aai, haven't played dgs ), sailor moon, star guardians, the owl house, pandora hearts, vanitas no carte, f*namusea media ( i PROMISE i am normal about it).

italics means it's a special interest!

i may also post about journaling, study notes and some k-pop idols i like, but for the latter i really don't consider myself part of the community anymore.

i also really like typology stuff ( mbti & enneagrams mainly ), as well as astrology & tarot.

stuff i may reblog for my mutuals:

splatoon, pokémon, tmnt, danganronpa, vocaloid, any of the idol rhythm games.

no more hyperspecific dni i'll just start biting people

still, asking that you don't follow if you identify yourself as proship / profic / anti-anti or radfem.

idc about minors following but i don't. really tag nsf/w stuff so... be safe?

also don't ask for my opinions on stuff i don't know how to behave ♡

#🎨 #(for fanart) #🎧 #(for tunes) #📸 #(for pics) #💭 #(me posting) #🎥 #(general media posting) #(everything after this is an aesthetic tag) #💗 #💌 #💄 #🔖 #(writing and literature) #🏷 #💬 #📦

[sir-yeehaw-paws]

1 ace attorney 8 vampyr 14 death stranding 9 13 yakuza 8 9 15 17 18 metal gear

(ik this is a lot, you dont have to do them all LOL im just going through the things i can remember you liking AJDKFAJDFKLG)

Media Asks

OH GOODNESS HI

Let's see!

Ace Attorney

1 . What originally drew me too it Lots of people I knew played Ace Attorney and I like mystery games and the setting seemed nice so I wanted to try it out. Vampyr

8. The character with the greatest wasted/unexplored potential?

Been a bit since I played Vampyr but there was a lot of potential in that 'vampire hunter' Ichabod IMO.

Death Stranding

14. The character/story arc I find most compelling

With Death Stranding I find this tricky because the story centers mostly around a single character and his supporting cast but the whole deal with Deadman was pretty cool.

Yakuza

9. The character I'd most enjoy feeding to a pride of ravenous lions

Jingu Kyohei is a waste of space and my eardrums.

13. The non-canon pairing I find most intriguing.

Picking one of these with Yakuza is SO HARD because I have SO MANY.

I've seen Kashiwagi/Yayoi before-that's pretty neat.

MGS

8. The character with the greatest wasted/unexplored potential?

I wouldn't have minded more of Vamp tbh. And it's a crying shame we only get to see Pliskin once. BUT ALSO OLGA.

9. The character I'd most enjoy feeding to a pride of lions

Answered Here

15. A character/story arc that bores me to tears

I really do not like or care much about/for the Beauty and the Beast Squad's backstories in MGS4.

17. The line of dialogue I quote most often

"There's nothing like the feel sliding a long silver bullet into a well greased chamber."

18. A plot hole that makes me want to tear my hair out

Answered Here

Thank you for sending in!!

#asks #answered asks #media asks #mgs #death stranding #yakuza #ace attorney #ask games

[sang8262]

i have a stupid number of ideas i wanna draw but i only have so much time yfeel me

so here's a running list of them because i need to be organized + it's fun to tease future pieces

it's mostly JP and SF6 ideas, obviously. it's a long ramble, you've been warned

1. Eventually, art of the whole roster, but this is a big Eventually. I usually end up drawing my friends and my own favs all the time, but I gotta expand, get out of my comfort zone, practice new things.

2. JP has several outfits already, so I'd like stickers or charms for each of them: Default, Alt costume, Arcade mode Nayshalli robes, the suit from the comics, and the suit while he's talking about being Bison's accountant.

2.5. And I understand SF does a lot of fun dlc costumes too, so I'm quite excited to draw whatever new thing they give us!!

3. JP golfing, his Drive Reversal looks like he swinging a golf club. The sport and those old timey golf "uniforms" both fit his vibe perfectly.

4. Crossovers with other Capcom games I like, namely: Monster Hunter, Ace Attorney, and Ghost Trick. You can just see him snapping and yelling "OBJECTION! Now observe (this new evidence I had forged)."

5. His likes include chess puzzles, cleaning, and local cuisines, and his dislikes are stains on his clothes and... sleep? That's the biggest red flag tbh who doesnt like sleep. Anyway, I wanted to draw something for each of them.

Maybe reading, or taking an uncomfortable nap in a chair with a chess board on a table. Doing the laundry while Cybele sleeps on a pile of clean (now cat hair covered) clothes. Surveying Nayshall while enjoying the street food (there's in game food items that will be perfect to reference).

6. Making actual playing cards! With his default and alt costumes mirrored like on the face cards. I want to hand them out to fellow JP mains I meet at tourneys... if I can one day make it out to one of the bigger events again, ugh.

Finally, there's some animated emotes I'm making for JP's chara discord, and I want to do cheer art for any notable JP's at tournaments too. .... and more ideas to come I'm sure haha...

7. Chibis of my mains/ favs from various fighting games, who all coincidentally have a dedicated special that parries or negates damage. Idk it just kinda turned out that way lol. They are: Raven (GGXrd), Relius and Azrael (BB), Yamazaki (KoF), and now, JP (SF6). Would be cute to have them all doing their respective parry special, with the inputs underneath. Doubles as a quick way to pass superficial but probably accurate judgement on the kind of person I am to like these bunch of weirdo villains.

8. Whoops just remembered, Zangief's day off outfit from his World Tour bond illustration. He's reading at the library too which is a great setting.

#let's see how long this hyperfixation can fuel my creative endeavors this time #cool suggestions are welcome but no guarantees i'll commit #there's that suggestions box or whatever right #idk im still figuring out this site/app

[holly-poly]

Nomination Clarifications #3

We've almost finished processing all the nominations - just 29 ships left from 15 fandoms to process once we have some clarifications. The current count overall is 459 fandoms and 2788 ships. We'll also be spending the next couple of days looking over the tagset ourselves for any issues but we don't know most of the fandoms so please do let us know if you see any errors with the tagset - wandering tags, typos, duplicates, things in the wrong place etc.

If you nominated Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia/Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg under Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, this is only 2 people and we don't allow 2 people ships. If you meant to write in a third person, please let us know who and also whether the ship is for The Witcher books, games or TV.

If you nominated Botanist("When t War Came")/Famine/Pestilence/Pollution(GO)/Teller(Dr Atomic)/small god of Chernobyl for crossover - Fandom, can you clarify what fandom small god of Chernobyl is from.

If you nominated Hinata Shoyou/Kageyama Tobio (Haikyuu)/Miyazumi Tatsuru/Shiratori Mitoko (Ryman's Club) under crossover - Fandom, we assume you may mean Shiratori Mikoto for the last character but can you confirm since we're not familiar with the fandom.

If you nominated Kristin | Death/Niki | Nihachu/Technoblade/Phil Watson | Philza or Technoblade/Philza/Kristin | Death (Dream SMP) under Dream SMP, we feel this may be borderline on if Kristin is a public figure in her own right or should be considered a significant other who would not be allowed under the rules. We don't know the fandom ourselves, could you provide more info to help us decide - for example, does she have her own stream/channel, or is she in a significant number of streams/videos?

If you nominated Cosette Fauchelevent/Marius Pontmercy/Any Character(s) (LM AMT) under Les Misérables - All Media Types, could you confirm if you are fine with literally any character, including original characters, or do you want any canon character?

If you nominated Beranardi al Auriga/Mandala Flynn/Hikaru Sulu under Star Trek: Classic Timeline, we assume that was probably a typo in there but can you confirm if this is meant to be Bernardi al Auriga from the The Entropy Effect novel.

If you nominated Aiden/Coën/Lambert (Witcher TV) under The Witcher (TV), can you confirm whether Aiden is actually in the show since we couldn't see anything suggesting the character was in it on character lists, only Aiden mentioned in the games.

If you nominated Kamisato Ayato/Thoma/Other Commissioner under 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game), could you clarify what you mean by other commissioner, does this mean either of commissioners from the other two commissions or something else?

If you nominated Klimt van Zieks | Klint van Zieks/Prosecution’s Office under 大逆転裁判 | Dai Gyakuten Saiban | The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (Video Games) is that meant to be the specific Prosecutor's office or a more general term?

If you nominated Gong Jun | Simon/Yu Xiang/Zhang Zhehan under 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021) RPF, we weren't 100% sure if we'd found the right actor for Yu Xiang, is Yun_Xiang who plays Bi Xingming in Word of Honor the correct person?

If you nominated Erik Lehnsherr/Pietro Maximoff/Charles Xavier or Erik Lehnsherr/Raven | Mystique/Charles Xavier or Kurt Wagner/Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier under Marvel (Comics) or Logan/Ororo Munroe/Kurt Wagner under X-Men (Comicverse), please can you let us know if you meant Marvel 616 or another comics universe.

If you nominated the fandom Mr. Malcolm's List, can you clarify if you mean the novel or the 2022 film.

If you nominated the fandom ユリ熊嵐 | Yuri Kuma Arashi, can you clarify if you meant the anime or the manga since they look to have the same characters but very different plotlines.

If you nominated Hernando Fuentes/Lito Rodriguez & Daniela Velasquez under Sense 8, that is rejected because we don't allow &'s for relationships in this exchange, however, the version using all /'s - Hernando Fuentes/Lito Rodriguez/Daniela Velasquez - is already in the tagset. Similarly, we've rejected Elizabeth Burke/Peter Burke/Neal Caffrey and Neal Caffrey/Mozzie under White Collar (TV 2009) but Elizabeth Burke/Peter Burke/Neal Caffrey/Mozzie is already in the tagset.

We also still have 5 questions outstanding from the other clarifications posts. If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment on this post. You can also send an e-mail to [email protected]. Collection: https://ao3.org/collections/holly_poly_2022 Tag Set: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/12906 Tumblr: https://holly-poly.tumblr.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/holly_poly_ex

#holly poly 2022 #nominations

[tsukikoayanosuke]

Captain Talks About Some Writing Things -  TWST Otome Game vs the Visual Novel Gameplay

Currently, in the fandom, I’ve seen some discussion about TWST otome game. It’s more of an imagining of what if Twisted-Wonderland is an otome game or dating sims instead of our current battle/rhythm game. While I have my opinion, there are already great posts of conversations with anons and other users from @pianostarinwonderland​ and @raven-at-the-writing-desk​​ about the matter, mostly surrounding the story and characters. 

So what am I doing here? As I said, I have my opinion, but not about the story and characters (but I’ll probably be touching about it in between). In this post, we’ll be looking through the lens of gameplay, as in the technical parts. Once upon a time, I want to go to the gaming department so the coding and system are always interesting. I made short games before, mostly for college assignments, so I might have little knowledge because most of what I learned is self-taught. Thus, I apologize for any misconception.

In addition, I’ll be comparing TWST to two visual novels, one of them can be count as an otome game. The first one is Asagao Academy: Normal Boots Club, an otome game based on Normal Boots. The reason why I chose this game is that I already had and played it at least for one route, so there’s a familiarity. The second one is Rewrite, a visual novel where there’s a war between humans and the nature-supernatural. Why I chose this because this is also a fantasy/supernatural genre similar to TWST. There won’t be many spoilers for the two games just in case any of you want to play them. However, I do apologize if I ended up making this more about visual novel than otome game because I’m more familiar with the former.

Despite everything I said, I’m not here to bash or offend anyone who wants TWST to be an otome game. You can imagine anything you want, even make your own TWST otome game. I mean, seeing these handsome boys, how can we not fall for them? (I mean, I don’t, but that’s another story) I’m here to open a new discussion on the table. Or you can use this as a future reference for your dating sims fangame.

So, without further ado, let’s discuss.

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What is an “Otome Game”? What is a “Visual Novel”?

Before we can go far, we need to know about the definitions of otome game and visual novel. According to Wikipedia, A visual novel, often abbreviated as VN, is a form of digital semi-interactive fiction. They combine a textual narrative with static or animated illustrations and a varying degree of interactivity. You can say that a visual novel is a fancy choose-your-own-adventure-type game because it’ll lead you to various routes depending on your choices. It’s like reading a book, but you can be picky about the pages you want to read. Examples of visual novels are the various works of Key (Clannad, Kanon, Air, Little Busters!, etc), the Ace Attorney series, the Danganronpa series, Steins;Gate and Chaos;Head, and the Fate series.

There are also differences between visual novels: kinetic novel and sound novel. The first one is kinetic novel. Kinetic novel is a visual novel without those branching plotlines. Some examples are Hatoful Boyfriend and Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet. Meanwhile sound novel is a visual novel that has a heavy emphasis on its sound and music. An example is the Higurashi series. A bonus, in my opinion, if we follow these definitions, then Twisted-Wonderland can be counted as a kinetic novel.

Otome game is a sub-genre of a visual novel. An otome game is a story-based video game that is targeted toward women. Generally one of the goals, besides the main idea/goal, is to develop a romantic relationship between the female player/main character and one of the second-lead male characters. Examples of these are Alice in the Country of Hearts, Diabolik Lovers, Amnesia, Uta no Prince-sama, and Mystic Messenger. The opposite of it, the bishōjo game, is a type of video game centered on interactions with attractive girls. Many visual novels are actually categorized under this, especially with the romantic elements. Both otome and bishōjo games can be categorized under the dating sims banner, which is a video game subgenre of simulation games with romantic elements.

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The Common Gameplay Elements of Visual Novel and Otome Game

Now, when we’re talking about otome games, or visual novels in general, what is your first thought? Usually, it would be the romantic interests, our wonderful bachelorettes and bachelors. Or maybe we’re thinking about the story, of fairy tale romance, psychological horror, or just simple high school drama. While, yes, both of them are important, very important if I may say, but that’s not what makes a visual novel and otome game... well, a visual novel and otome game. It’s a certain breed of itself.

The Minimal Gameplay and Storybook-like Visual

One thing that separates visual novel and otome games from their peers from the get-go is how it visually looks and the gameplay. Unlike RPG, visual novel and otome game has very minimal gameplay, focusing more on reading the narrative. You can say this is an interactive storybook. This might be the biggest turn-off for many players, because, you know, who likes reading?

But with its minimal gameplay, comes the advantages. The stories of a visual novel and otome game are usually character-driven. While some have a straight plot, they usually are one moment where you get to spend bonding with one of the characters or love interests. Another advantage is that the developers can give more unique minigames or unusual point systems in the game. Some examples are the class trial in Danganronpa series or the baseball minigame in Little Busters!. However, the focus is always on the reading aspect. If there’s a special scene, usually they will be given a CG/picture, or maybe even an animation/cutscene.

Both Asagao Academy and Rewrite have this classic storybook-like format, just like many others. The layout might be different with a little extra spice here and there, but it’s essentially the same thing. In addition, Rewrite has a short goggle-map-like minigame while Asagao Academy doesn't have any.

Common Route & Character Route

Now, starting from here, this is the main discussion for me. Relating to the character-driven story aspect, visual novel and otome game, in terms of story part, can be separated into two: common route and character route. Now, I’ll be honest, I don’t know what the official names are, but for now, I’ll be calling them like that.

Common route is the introduction part of the game. In this part of the game, you’re introduced to the world, your MC, and your cute girls/boys who you will be spending the rest of the game with. The story is usually more simple than the character route because it’s natural for the player to settle down in this new environment. Throughout this part, you will be served with various options that will determine the progress of the story and future route. There might be some hints of drama that you’ll dive into more in the next part. The common route ends at a certain point when it’ll take you to the character you’ve chosen. Some games let you choose the girl/boy, some games just straight up take you after tallying all the points you’ve earned through the choices you picked. 

In Asagao Academy, throughout your common route, you’ll meet various Normal Boots boys and you learn about the game tournament. The MC, Hana, has a skill in puzzle games, so after many interactions, the boys agree to accept her as a permanent member of the club if they win the tournament. While that’s the end game, the common route ends with the flower festival, where Hana can choose one of the Normal Boots boys to go with. This also serves as your gateway to your character route. There will be different scenes and interactions depending on which boy you choose.

In Rewrite, it’s more complex. The MC, Kotarou, has been experiencing supernatural stuff, so he goes to the ‘School Witch’, who is actually his senior. Because he wants to find new friends, he joins the Occult Club that is lead by said senior and starts writing articles about the supernatural. The common route ends when a girl from the newspaper club goes missing in the forest where the Occult Club went a few days ago. When they go to investigate on their own on the 13th of November, they get attacked by creatures and find out that there’s a war between two organizations for the fate of the earth. This is the gateway to Kotori Kanbe, Akane Senri, and Chihaya Ohtori character route. However, you can skip everything and get an entirely different common route. The common route reaching Lucia Konohana route focuses on the arguments between Chihaya and Lucia over a misunderstanding of why Lucia wears gloves and is such a neat freak. This common route ends on the 27th of October. There’s even a way to get extra scenes while still following the main common route. The common route reaching to Sizuru Nakatsu route has some extra scenes surrounding Sizuru and everything surrounding her, including a scene of Kotarou and Sizuru visiting her parents who don’t remember her. After that, you follow the main common route again and get extra scenes on the 13th of November rather than fainting like the other routes (except Lucia).

Character route is the next part. In this part of the game, you spend most of your time with your chosen girl/boy. There will be drama, there might be character growth and development. You learn more about the characters, their struggles, and their feelings toward you. Each character has their own story and struggles, and you’ll be there to support your beloved. There might be choices appearing through the arc if there are multiple endings (as in good end, neutral end, and bad end) but there are some that only have one end. Usually, the game ends with either of the characters confessing their love for each other or they already confessed their love in the middle of the route. Unfortunately, I can’t explain all the routes one by one for I haven’t read and played both games fully.

Post-Main Game Prize

While it’s nice to end the game with your first pick route, usually the player wants to see other routes. And what happened after everything is done? This is where the post-game content appears. This is your price after completing everything, whether you open a brand new ending or a new route, it’ll depend on the developer.

Asagao Academy actually has several surprises. It has two extra routes outside the main Normal Boots boys. This can be accessed even before you finish the game. And after you completed both and everything else (with all worst, bad, good, and best endings), you’ll get an extra ending which is a continuation of Jirad route.

Rewrite goes the extra mile and gives you two new routes (technically three). Moon route can be accessed after completing all of the five girls' routes. It focuses on a new girl, Kagari, the same girl that has been haunting Kotarou on the common route, and more nature-supernatural conflict. After completing that, you’ll unlock Terra route, where you see Kotarou’s past, which makes it a prequel for the first part and a sequel to the second part. And after completing everything, including all minigame quests, you’ll unlock a gag route called Oppai route through the common route.

Minor Things (Save, Calendar, CG)

While I call this a minor thing, this is more of a technical thing that is essential to a visual novel and otome game. Because of the nature of having usually multiple choices, the save system is important. If you’re on the road to a bad ending, do you really want to start from the beginning? Usually, the save system is always available, so when an option pop up, you can save first before choosing. And if you want to choose another option, you can just load your last save file. The calendar system is mostly a trivia to mark your progress throughout the route, especially the common route when there are many options. It also acts as a marker whether you’re in the common route or character route because usually, the calendar will disappear when you enter a character route. The CGs are served for important or emotional scenes, something that words aren’t enough to describe it. There are many more quirks, but these three are what I think are the most crucial.

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“TWST Otome Game” from a Visual Novel Gameplay Perspective

After everything, here comes the million-dollar question: Is it possible for Twisted-Wonderland to become an otome game from a gameplay perspective?

Short answer: With the current state of story structure, possibly no. Long answer: It’s complicated but I’ll try my best to explain my reasoning.

Well, let’s go down with every point that I made about the elements of a visual novel/otome game: the storybook aspect, the routes, the completion bonus, and the minor things. Even though I mentioned that TWST, by definition, is a kinetic novel, we’ll be taking a more traditional visual novel/otome game style with branching plotlines. And, once again, I apologize if I’m leaning more toward visual novel rather than otome game.

The first aspect is actually already been fulfilled. Twisted-Wonderland has wonderful art thanks to Yana Toboso and her team. They’ve provided us with handsome boys, well-design background, amazing music, and the visual-novel presentation in the main story and card story. If we take out all the lessons, the room decorating, and the test, the main core of TWST is definitely the story-ready aspect with the rhythm and battle more serving as a minigame. There’s not much you can do in TWST other than tap your screen and pick some options. 

However, this is where it sort of crumbles. While it’s true that TWST provides us with options, what effect does it brings? Sure the dialogues that follow can be different but remember what I said before. Visual novel and otome game depends on these options to move forward and enter your ideal character route. Not to mention, that most of the options presented is either polite or snarky answers with the same meaning in the end.

But this is easy to fix by adding more dialogues and making them meaningful which would affect the routes onward. But this serves another problem. When do the common route and the character routes start and end? This is my main argument. Remember, the common route and character routes are essential to a visual novel/otome game. Both Piano and Raven had made great points about how the story and characters won’t work, you guys can check them out. What becomes puzzling for me is how would the common and character route works. At the Post-Main Game Prize, I mentioned for both Asagao Academy and Rewrite have bonus endings only if you can complete all the routes. This would mean that you have to replay the game over and over again to get all the endings. How would that work in TWST? One of TWST's weaknesses is the game doesn’t really introduce a new character until we reach the dorm featured in the episode and they seldom call back old characters for an important role.

Many anon implied that the main story is the common route, which begs the question of when the character route ends. Let’s take an example (featuring some bullet points): 

Let’s just say that the whole main story is the common route. And let’s say that I want to romance Ruggie. Would this mean Ruggie route is unlocked since the beginning or only unlocked since his first appearance? If we follow this logic, would that mean I have to wait until Pomefiore to even unlock Idia and Ortho? Does the player have enough patience to do that?

 Now, how do we get to Ruggie’s route? We barely even meet him in the main story/common route because he’s working together with Leona for Malleus’ murder attempt.

 You can say, “oh, Ruggie character route can happen after Savanaclaw ends.” While I can take this because of the aforementioned Lucia Konohana route from Rewrite, then comes another question: what it’ll be about? Again, we barely know the guy, we don’t know his full problem.

 “Well, that’s what the character route is for, right?” Remember what I said about the common route being our introduction to the love interests? If you never give us hints of what their problem or interest is, how am I supposed to make the early connection. And don’t say their looks, because that’s a weak reasoning. The common route teases us with the bachelorettes and bachelors, and the character route gives us the full-blown experiences.

 To add a point to that, what will happen to the main story after that? Do we just abandon them for one story? If we go through Ruggie route in Savanaclaw, does this mean we won’t get involved with the Octavinelle scam, the Scarabia training camp, or VDC? In Asagao Academy, at the end of every route, you’ll face the tournament which will lead you to one of your four endings. In Rewrite, while you will either join two different organization or stay neutral, there’s one thing that still connects them: the end of the world. For TWST, after we pick a character route, do we just abandon everything for one boy or keep continuing on? If we still continue down the common route, what will happen to Ruggie in Octavinelle, Scarabia, and the story onward? Sure he’s involved in Octavinelle, but he only appear once in Scarabia.

 Still sticking with this mess, how will the player and Ruggie’s relationship go after that? Would Ruggie join in with you along the way or does he stay behind? Does your relationship even matters after that? Does it affect the story onward? There’s a reason why the character routes happen after the common route ends in both Asagao Academy, Rewrite, and many other games. The character routes served as a new storyline, a continuation. Both games don’t go back and forth between the character route and the common route.

 This might not be what Piano and Raven mean when they say that the current TWST story would be hard to turn into otome games, but even if we look gameplay-wise, it would be a nightmare to code. Jumping between the common route and the character route would be a mess. This is why most visual novels/otome games stick to the classic format of ending the common route first before entering the character route. 

As I put an example of both Lucia Konohana and Sizuru Nakatsu, it’s possible to end the common route differently, but they have their own character route that is separated from the common route and they don’t go back to it. You can argue that from the way I explained about Sizuru Nakatsu part that it seems that she has a character route and then go back to the common route. I assure you, all the extra scene for Sizuru in the common route is part of said route. This is actually a clever way to tease us to learn more about Sizuru by the end of the common route and entering her route. As I mentioned, the common route teases us with the bachelorettes and bachelors, and the character route gives us the full-blown experiences.

I won’t argue much about the post-main game prize, but this makes me think. Now, I do admit that I don’t know much about otome games, but the two games I used as an example here are full games with no DLC context. With TWST being a mobile game that would always update, how will the progression go? If every boy is a love interest, how many updates does it take to get the full otome game experience? Again, this is because of the lack of knowledge, so I apologize for not giving a strong argument.

I do, however, think of something that might become another sour topic, but I think I might as well address it: The Main Character Problem.

In the past, I, like many others, praised how TWST’s MC being gender-neutral is a breath of fresh air. This way, everyone can play it without feeling awkward playing as the default gender and we can easily put ourselves into Yuu/Player. Unlike Rewrite which has a male mc named Kotarou Tennouji and Asagao Academy which has a female mc named Hana Mizuno, TWST has a gender-neutral mc named Yuu (but can be changed depending on the player). Now, as usual, I’m talking about game Yuu, not OC Yuu. Got it memorized?

Now, unfortunately, when it comes to the role of the main character, I would say Kotarou and Hana are better than Yuu by default. Why? Because Kotarou and Hana are their own characters, unlike Yuu who is a player-insert.

As I mentioned previously, playing a visual novel or an otome game is like reading a book. Maybe, I need to make this clearer: it's like reading a book from the first-person point of view. When we're reading a story or novel with a first-person pov, we put ourselves in the head of the main character. You know their thoughts and feeling through the words written on the page. You can be frustrated at them and you can separate yourself from them. You can imagine putting yourself like them, but at the end of the day, they are their own character and you're just, fortunately, or unfortunately, sharing room in their brain.

This is the same as playing/reading a visual novel/otome game. You can put yourself in Kotarou or Hana's shoes but there might be a time when your personality will clash with theirs. Kotarou is easygoing, often getting himself in trouble, and a little bit perverted, but is also a kind person and would do anything for a friend (before this, however, he was described as cold and a loner). Hana is a sweet girl but can be timid because of her past. She can be quick to judge and has a tiny trust issue, but eventually comes around and opens up. They are their own person with their own personality, past, and struggles.

I, unfortunately, cannot say the same for Yuu. This is TWST's strength and weakness. Yuu has very little personality, doesn't have a past, and the only struggle they have (wanting to get home) is mostly forgotten. However, this might be intentional because they're supposed to be player-insert. The player can insert themselves into you and fill the blank about their past and personality from the options provided.

Now, why this is important? Short answer: monologues.

As I mentioned previously, playing a visual novel or an otome game is like reading a book through a first-person pov. Thus, you know the main character's thoughts, feelings, and even personalities from what they're saying in their head/what's written on the page/their monologues and self-reflection. Kotarou's monologues flow very easily, sometimes a little bit dramatic. From reading it, the first impression is that he's a chill dude and maybe a little bit of a prankster. Hana's monologues sometimes go long, a little bit deep, and often filled with self-reassurance. You can tell from those that she's a nervous girl who wants to try her best. Unfortunately, unlike these games, we never get Yuu monologues in TWST.

Once again, this is TWST's strength and weakness. With Yuu being a player insert, we have the will to form our own monologues. However, when making a visual novel or otome game, we need the main character to anchor us. With Yuu having so little personality (like even less than Grim), what would their canon monologues be? We don't know. We never know. We never had a moment for Yuu to gather their thought about the situation after a deadly overblot battle. We don't know what they were thinking when they lost Ramshackle Dorm to Azul's deal. The closest thing we had was them worrying about Grim and the injured Ace and Deuce in Ignihyde.

When playing Asagao Academy or watching Rewrite, I can easily separate myself from Hana and Kotarou even if we control their action. But when playing TWST, that line may blur sometimes. We know what we're thinking or feeling, but we don't know what Yuu is thinking or feeling. And because of this, canon monologues seem very hard to write. Because once you put a monologue, you cemented a personality through the words. And that would contradict Yuu's player-insert nature.

This might be fixable if the main character is Yuuken Emma or Yuuya Kuroki who both have clear personalities which makes it easy to create monologues for them, but I have little doubt that they are preferred over the player-insert Yuu.

And one last thing, not related to anything here (though maybe slightly toward main character-ish), but why ‘otome games’? Like, why not ‘visual novel’ or just ‘dating sims’? Remember that by definition otome games are targeted toward female audiences with female mc and male love interests. I'm not saying that males can't play otome games, but the implication that the mc might be a female? Or maybe that's not the intention. I can be wrong.

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In Conclusion

There are more things than just a story and characters (and many had said about the matters) to make an otome game or a visual novel. On a technical gameplay level, it takes a lot of work to even make this. With the lack of weight to the options, the unclear line of common routes and character routes, the updates for a mobile game, and the weak main character who can't be separated from the player, it'll take more effort than just pulling the current Twisted-Wonderland and putting in romantic sprinkles.

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And that's the furthest I can say for now. As I said, most of my knowledge came from self-taught, so I might get things wrong. Sorry about that. But this is just something that I want to say, at least as a fangame creator myself.

But, once again, this is not me saying you guys should stop making or wanting a TWST otome game. I'm happy that our fandom is going to have fangame contributions and I'll be cheering for you guys.

Well, I hope this little ramble can open a new view or discussion about this matter. Even if it's not, I hope it's at least an enjoyable read. I spent, like, almost a day writing this on a whim, so sorry if it looks messy.

Thank you for reading~!

#the captain's rambling #twisted wonderland #disney twisted wonderland #twst

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welcome to the blog! It stands for sailing across dimensions and is my fandom; primarily shipping; space. I wanted a space where I could feel comfortable posting lower quality art, edits, and goof off with friends and finally decided to make that space for myself.

Always happy to do ask games, answer head canon questions, be told to draw silly doodles of joy, anything of the sort.

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List of fandoms, ships, fictional others, and anything else important under the drop

☄️ Fandoms 🚀

Batman — The Animated Series & Gotham Knights (VG)

Castlevania — Animation

Lucifer

Constantine

Welcome Home

Nexomon

Ace Attorney

Name — Specifics

this list can fluctuate and will change at random. Anything of active interest should be here but don't fear asking about others. I might not be into it now but I might get into it because of you!

☄️ Ships 🚀

Bruce Wayne x Batman — Batman {Primarily in BTAS & Gotham Knights (VG) }

Bruce Wayne/Batman x Lucifer — Batman {Primarily Gotham Knights (VG) } / Lucifer

Constantine x Lucifer — Constantine / Lucifer

Dream of the Endless x Lucifer — ??? Comics

Dean Winchester x John Constantine — Supernatural / Hellblazer

Trevor Belmont x Dracula — Castlevania { Animation }

Slade Wilson x Nightwing — DC

Raven x Robin — Teen Titans

Name x Name — Source { extra deets }

Not all of my ships but similar to fandoms are the ones of my active interest at the moment. mostly here to help give people something to grab at for games and prompts

☄️ F/Os 🚀

Romantic { 🌌 } Familial — { 🌈 } Platonic — { 🌕 } Adversarial — { 🌩 }

{ 🌌 } Batman — Batman (BTAS & Gotham Knights)

{ 🌌 } Bruce Wayne — Batman (BTAS & Gotham Knights)

{ 🌌 } Trevor Belmont — Castlevania (Animation)

{ 🌌 } Wally Darling — Welcome Home

{ 🌌 } Keisuke Jin — Kamen Rider X

{ 🌌 } Slade Wilson — DC

{ 🌌 } Fenrir — Nexomon

{ 🌌 🌈 } Ishtar — Vampire the Masquerade

{ 🌈 } Lucifer — Lucifer

{ 🌈 } Metta — Nexomon

{ 🌈 } Ziegler — Nexomon

{ 🌕 } Oliver Queen — Arrow

{ 🌕 } Clark Kent — Superman (STAS & Gotham Knights)

{ 🌕 } Zetta — Nexomon

{ 🌩 } Sally Scarlet — Welcome Home

{ x } Name — Source

I don't mind sharing F/Os with others. Sometimes F/Os are actually more of a projection on a specific person I know; for lack of a better way to say it.

☄️ S/Is 🚀

Trainer Ebon — Pokémon — #x si ebon pkm Vampire Ebon — Vampire the Masquerade — #x si ebon vtm Trainer Dominic — Pokémon — #x si dominic pkm Vampire Dominic — Vampire the Masquerade — #x si dominic vtm Name — Source — #tag

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• Bruce ━ 🌑💾 ↳︎ AKA; Bruce Wayne, Masquerade • Bats ━ ☀️🦇 ↳︎ Batman • Ashley ━ 🍫☕ ↳︎ Ashley Williams, • Ebon ━ ☄️🗡️ ↳︎ Dean Winchester, ✩︎━✩︎━✩︎━✩︎━✩︎ • Name ━ ## ↳︎ Full name, other name, kintype names, etc • Name ━ ## ↳︎

MuC|N?#|Ot|Mpf

☄️ Else 🚀

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☄️ Active Ask Games 🚀

Send me a Ship and a Number and I will Write a Kiss./ Link — Write a Kiss Title w/Link — Code to use in asks to show it's this one

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