❝ Terribly sorry. Madame President isn’t available to meet visitors right now! Yes, yes, I understand, this is disappointing if you’ve traveled to the Aether Paradise just to meet with the president. Unless it’s urgent, the best I can do is submit a request for an appointment, ❞ the secretary explains, mildly annoyed by the encroaching crowd.
❝ She— she doesn’t meet people face-to-face very often. ❞
nothing just two badass disabled kings who struggle with the intersection of internalized ableism and fame, and who have hot boyfriends who don't see them as lesser because of their disability and are very patient with them about said internalized ableism and are waiting for the day when they realize there's nothing wrong with them
some more designs, both updated and new! subway boss elesa with a fresh new look and..........a very very normal-looking warden ingo. yup. nothing weird going on there
Man, I went into the Trails series with a WAY different idea of what they were like then what they actually were.
Trails: "Welcome to Zemuria. Here, an industrial revolution based around the use of orbal energy is completely changing society. You can even use orbal energy to enhance your physical abilities via portable devices called orbments! They also allow you to use magical abilities called Arts."
Me: "Oh, so this is how people are going to do crazy anime shit. Via fancy Arts and Orbments power. I can easily see how this system can be used for a clear and consistent power system, in an otherwise realistic and grounded setting."
Trails: "Uhhhh"
Me: "So this guy who uses the Shadow Clone no Jutsu is using a really fancy Art, right?"
Trails: "No, he can just do that."
Me: "Oh, o-okay"
Trails: "One of your party members is a twelve-year-old girl with a gatling gun."
Me: "What"
Trails: "Your dad has a DBZ-esque power-up move and can go hand-to-hand with a giant robot. It's completely unrelated to any kind of Orbal enhancement."
Me: "WHAT"
Trails: "I haven't even mentioned the guy who's just The Joker With Superpowers yet"
just realized one of the options when you get caught by a steel watcher at the foundry is "what are you looking at I live here" and how that could maybe almost be not entirely a lie for durge