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fluffykitteninabox · 1 year
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I hate the legend of Korra
(but not as much as I used to)
So I hated the legend of Korra when it came out. I think it was the first time I actively hated a show. Like, I've had shows before that I didn't like before this, but this one I despised with my entire being!! 😂
Anyway, a lot of time has passed since then and Korra has ended now and my opinion on it has evolved.
Saying it again just to clarify, my opinion hasn't changed, it has evolved.
I've come to the conclusion that what I hated and still hate about Korra is the world building and the story. I don't like how they handled the Avatar universe, and the plot of every single season sucks ass, either because the premise itself is stupid or because it was executed poorly.
When the show first came out, on top of this I also hated the characters. Because let's be real here, everyone in season 1 except for Asami and Bolin were kind of dickheads. And Bolin was annoying to me, and we weren't supposed to be sure if Asami was good or not, so the entire first season we're just following a bunch of assholes around.
But in later seasons the characters evolve, and they get better, and they become actually likeable.
Korra while still not my favourite character, did grow a lot later in the series. She was "Mary sue-ish" in the first season, but she moved away from that quickly, and she became a really interesting character in my opinion.
Even though the writers had no idea what to do with Bolin, and they relegated him to being the comic relief in the C plot of each episode, he still managed to become a lovable awkward himbo.
Asami was always amazing, and she kept being amazing till the end!
And sure, it takes Mako a while to get there with the rest of them, but eventually he becomes an actual character too! (sorry not sorry to Mako fans 😂)
And by the end of the series I grew to love these characters. I wish they were part of a better story. I wish we had seen them grow closer. They never really felt like a friend group to me, and that's kind of sad.
One of the reasons I ADORE the original ATLA series is because of how it handles friendship and how close the main gang are with each other. I wish the main gang in Korra had the chance to get this close too. I wish we could have seen them be friends.
Perhaps if the writers hadn't wasted so much time on the stupid love triangle, we could have seen the "friend group" being an actual friend group.
Anyway, I still hate the story of LOK, but I adore its characters.
That's all I wanted to say
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Actually wait, one more thing:
Asami is a Goddess and is the best character in the entire series ok bye now!
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reinerispretty · 1 year
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rotations (zuko x f!reader) masterlist
written during the prime of the atla rennaissance (summer 2020), (y/n) is a child of the fire nation aristocracy and a close friend to prince zuko. as circumstances drive the two apart, she finds them thrown back together. this time on opposite sides of a war.
start. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. end.
bonus chapters
first time / azula returns / (y/n) is pregnant / sokka babysits / sokka AU / sokka what if / zuko finds out (sequel to azula returns) / zuko finds out he wasn't her first kiss / team avatar 2.0 meets (y/n) / little izumi / little moments
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whxre-bxby · 1 year
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Masterlist ʕ•͡-•ʔ
┻━┻ ︵ ヽ(°□°ヽ) ᶠᴸᴵᴾ ᵀᴴᴵˢ ᵀᴬᴮᴸᴱ.
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ ᶠᴸᴵᴾ ᵀᴴᴬᵀ ᵀᴬᴮᴸᴱ.
┻━┻ ︵ \(0)/ ︵ ┻━┻ ᶠᴸᴵᴾ ᴬᴸᴸ ᵀᴴᴱ ᵀᴬᴮᴸᴱˢ
A/N: I write heavy smut :) and often a few violent scenes. The reader is always female here.
Fluff: marked with ♡
Smut: marked with ✩
Angst: marked with ◍
Call Of Duty
Simon "Ghost" Riley:
"Longing For You" Simon Riley x inexperienced f. reader♡✩◍
Marvel :
Multiple Characters:
Hired Stripper #1
Hired Stripper #2 ✩
Hired Stripper #3 ♡✩
Team's Slave ✩
Michael Morbius:
Morbius x reader ✩ ◍
Loki Laufeyson:
Loki x reader Pregnacy ♡
Loki x reader #1 ♡
Loki x reader #2 ✩ ◍
Peter Parker:
Peter x reader ♡✩
WWE :
Roman Reigns:
Daughter's Hot Friend ♡
Daughter's Hot Friend #2 ♡✩ ◍
Stranger Things:
Enzo:
Enzo (Dmitri Antonov) x reader ♡✩
Avatar/ATWOW (movie):
Miles Quaritch:
Miles Quaritch (Avatar) x (human f.) reader ♡✩◍
"I'll Hunt You Down" ✩◍
"I'll Take Care Of It" ♡
Forced Miles Quaritch Smut♡✩◍
Teaching Na'vi (short one-shot)
"Heartfelt Confessions"♡✩◍
"Forbidden But Desired"♡✩◍
Mansk:
Mansk's Characterisation
"Late Night Feels" ♡✩
"Special Appointment"♡✩
"Greeting Death With A Smile"◍
"Colourful Pills" ♡✩
(More futher down)
Lyle Wainfleet:
"Hopelessly Devoted To You"♡✩◍
Hate-fucking with Lyle ✩◍
(More further down)
Prager:
Hate-fucking with Prager♡✩◍
(More further down)
Brown:
"Maybe Blue Isn't So Bad" ♡✩◍
(More further down)
Multiple Characters: (RECOM'S)
"We'll Teach You Some Manners" (Quaritch, Mansk)◍
"We'll Teach You Some Manners" ◍
"We'll Teach You Some Manners"✩◍
"We'll Teach You Some Manners" ♡✩◍
Period Oneshots (Quaritch, Mansk, Lyle)♡
Meeting and Pregnancy headcanons (Quaritch, Mansk, Lyle)♡✩
1. "Colonel's Orders" (Quaritch, Mansk, Lyle)✩◍
2. "Colonel's Orders - Version 2.0" (Prager, Ja)♡✩
1. "This Is What You Came For"✩◍
2. "This is What You Came For" 2✩◍
"Devil's Bait"◍
"Cursed By Blue" (Mansk, Lyle, Quaritch)✩
"Cursed By Blue 2.0" (Prager, Ja)♡✩
"Cursed By Blue" 3.0 (Lopez, Brown)♡✩
"Sleep Won't Do It" (Quaritch, Lyle)♡✩◍
Vengeance Turns To Desire (Quaritch, Lyle, Mansk, Lopez, Ja, Prager)♡✩◍
Hatefucking (Brown and Ja)♡✩◍
Pecking Order♡✩◍
✨️1K Special Requests✨️:
Hate-Fucking with Mansk♡✩◍
"Can you take it?" (Lyle Wainfleet) ♡✩
"A Different Kind Of Warmth" (Mansk)♡✩◍
"Do It Our Way" (Recom Redemption) ◍
"Comfort Of Your Body"(Mansk) ♡✩◍
"Eywa's Will" (Lyle Wainfleet) ◍♡
Face-Sitting with Prager♡✩
"Insane Like Me" (Fike)◍♡
NSFW Drabbles/Headcanons
Artwork:
Shirtless Mansk
Miles Quaritch Smut Comic
Mansk Art for fanfiction "Special Appointment"
Lyle Wainfleet Fluff
Mansk Art (for fanfic „Greeting Death With A Smile“)
Mansk Headshot (smoking) Art
Late Night Talks (Neteyam) Art
NSFW Mansk Art
Recom's Funeral
ATWOW Memes:
Meme batch 1
Meme batch 2
Other :
Volodymyr Zelensky x reader ✩
(Austin Butler) Elvis Presley x reader ♡✩
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strawberry-cowmilk · 1 year
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Hi, hi! May I request for the bros and child! MC? Just general head canons and how they get along yk yk.
I love ur works sm, and dw if u don't wanna write this <3 Tyyyyy! <3
Bonus: child! MC calls the bros "Big brother" but calls Lucifer "dad" or "papa" <3 thanks again! And ofc, don't pressure urself ok?
Hi! It's no trouble at all, don't worry about it! I'm happy to hear you like my work. Anyways, I hope you like this!
the brothers with a child mc
a/n: I know there are some real perverts out there: this is NOT meant to describe a romantic relationship between the brothers and mc at all. I don't want you on my blog, but the police sure wants you in their jails ♡♡
mc's gender is not mentioned, not proof read
content warnings: children
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Lucifer
he was really shocked when the exchange student turned out to be a child
'diavolo we made a mistake-'
but well, now he might as well look after you, right?
everyone can tell how soft mr avatar of pride is for the tiny human, lucifer frees up time from work to play games with you
he feels an even stronger need to protect you when you call him 'dad'
Mammon
mammon is great with kids
he literally spends a lot of money on toys and clothes to make you happy
he feels like he's been granted the highest title of honor when you call him your big brother
one time simeon and luke came over and the first thing they saw was mammon running around the house with you, having the time of your life, on his back
Leviathan
at first he wanted nothing to do with some human child
until mammon and beel basically forced him to play video games with you, they didn't want you thinking levi hates you
his door is now always open for you to play child friendly games on his playstation (levi hid his more violent games just in case)
also he often lets you win against him, and he thinks it's really sweet of you to pay attention to henry 2.0
Satan
the exchange student is a literal child? well somebody has to make sure you don't get badly influenced by his wild brothers
he wouldn't want you to learn how to steal like mammon, or end up like levi
also satan reads you books as bedtime stories and takes you to cat cafes so you can play with all the cats you want
the cat cafe staff thought you were his child, satan almost fell over when you said 'nope, he's my big brother'
Asmodeus
he thinks your absolutely adorable, as long as you don't draw on any walls or get paint on his clothes
if you want, you can makeup on him, it doesn't matter if it looks bad, asmo likes dressing up in matching outfits too
asmo took you to his shoot once, he really needed a moment when you introduced yourself to the photographer as asmo's little sibling
one time solomon came to visit, asmo nearly tackled him when he realised solomon was going to give you some homemade poison cookies
Beelzebub
he provides you with all the candy and akudonald's you want, beel can't say no to you
he sometimes lets you try out some of his workout equipment, under supervision of course
beel almost cried during a whole fangol match the time he took you to a game and you told his team he was your big brother
said game got interrupted when the other team tackled beel and you tried to run onto the field to help him
Belphegor
he knows human children need naps sometimes, but they can be stubborn
belphie invented a genius way to get you to sleep: he got you a giant teddy bear and told you it was tired and wanted company while sleepy
all of the brothers almost cry when they see you napping with the giant bear
belphie is the youngest, it catches him a little off guard when you call him 'big brother', but he thinks it's adorable regardless
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Pairing: OM!Brothers x GN!MC
Genre: NA
TW: NA
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Lucifer
It was in their files, so he knew about MC being an idol beforehand.
However, what he didn’t know was that the human that they had basically kidnapped for their exchange program was popular even in the Devildom.
On one hand, it meant less demons would be after their soul, but on the other hand, they’re too popular.
Man has his hands full with the work Diavolo gives him and his brothers, and now he has to look after a fragile little human who just so happens to be a big idol and influencer in two realms? He’ll need a vacation and a few bottle of Demonus after this-
Secretly is proud that his human has a fanbase that can rival those of him and his brothers in the Devildom.
Listens to MC’s songs when he needs to unwind. Just listening to their voice makes him feel relaxed and happier.
Mammon
New way to get Grimm: Acquired
After getting reprimanded for seeing MC’s celebrity status as a way to make money, he will act all cocky. Like, of course, it’s his human who’s a big idol with an even bigger fanbase. After all, the Avatar of Greed doesn’t make pacts with just anyone, y'know?
Will take his role as their first demon very seriously.
Will also sell autographed pictures of them. I can see him one day just barging into MC’s room with a stack of photos and asking them to sign each one of them.
But he will be greedy with one thing; their voice. He’ll ask them to sing some songs of theirs when the two are alone, preferably in one of their rooms. At that time he’ll set his tsundere nature aside, and if MC looks at him, they’ll see that he’s closed his eyes, a faint smile playing on his lips as he listens attentively.
He will become pouty if they sing for his brothers though.
Leviathan
Fanboy mode: Activated
He definitely knew about MC before they came to Devildom, and almost passed out when he saw them for the first time.
He’d be a stuttering, blushing mess of a demon at first, but as time goes by, he’ll become more comfortable with having them around.
That doesn’t stop him from fainting whenever MC shows him the smallest amount of affection though-
Proud 2.0
Another one who likes to hear them sing their songs.
Will buy all of their merch, then come up to MC like the shy little otaku he is and ask them to sign it for him.
Has a part of his room dedicated to MC’s merch.
Satan
Doesn’t really think much of it at first.
He respects MC’s hard work and determination for what they do, but doesn’t really go bonkers over it.
Satan does worry about their safety though. He knows that some people can be rather creepy with how they interact with MC, so he has designated himself as their bodyguard.
Reads up on musical theory and likes to talk with them about it. Sometimes he even helps them write songs, though the ones he assists with always somehow end up being about cats or overly angsty and violent songs.
Asmodeus
Squealed in pure joy when he saw MC for the first time and nearly got hung upside down by Lucifer
Asmo is always up to date with the newest trends, so obviously he’d heard about the up and coming sensation that was MC. May or may not have been thinking of paying them a little visit in the Human Realm before they were dropped into the Devildom-
Asks them to perform for him, but if they’re uncomfortable with that, he’ll settle for watching videos of their past performances, provided they are next to him.
He’s a highly sought after demon, so he’s had his fair share of experience with obsessed fans. He uses his charm whenever he feels like someone is making MC uncomfortable or has bad intentions.
Asmo often gushes about them on his Devilgram. There is an account devoted solely to record memories of him and them, and although it has more followers than his own account, he finds that he doesn’t really mind it.
Beelzebub
Is very proud of MC for still being caring and humble, even when they’re a celebrity. Beel is the part of the RAD Fangol team, and he’s seen firsthand how praise and fame can go to one’s head with a bunch of his teammates, so he really admires MC’s down-to-earth behavior.
Soft protector worries about MC a lot.
Always makes sure that they have enough to eat, and will make sure that they eat a well-balanced meal three times a day.
Beel likes work out with MC, sometimes dragging Belphie to the gym as well.
Very protective of MC, he’s always around them. And if for some reason he cannot look after them, he’ll entrust them to Belphie or any other brother of his.
Belphegor
The first thought that comes to his mind is dragging MC to take a nap with him. After all, being a celebrity must be exhausting, right? Always giving your best and entertaining fans must be hard work, so MC should rest a little.
MC thought he was clingy before? Belphie will literally cling to them at all times now, stating that he cannot go to sleep unless they sing him something.
On days when MC is tired or not around, he’ll fall asleep to the recordings of lullabies that he made them sing for him beforehand.
Uses his ability on them to give them good dreams, so that they’re refreshed and energetic the next day.
And if there were any demonic or human fans of MC who tried to harass them? Yeah, they’re not gonna see them for a long, long time…. And no MC, he didn’t have anything to do with it, don’t give him that look-
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reckless-rider · 11 months
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A list no one asked for! Anyway a list of all the Wilhelm Screams found in media according to IMDB Part 1.
Happy Family
1000 Ways to Die
16 Blocks
2.0
21 Jump Street
22 Jump Street
30 Days of Night 
Lost  (S5.E6) 
51
6:66 PM
A Christmas Story Christmas 
A Day to Die
A Dog’s Way Home
A Goofy Movie
A Simple Request
Simpsons (S32.E10)
A Star Is Born
Abominable 
Accepted 
Agent Cody Banks
Ainoat oikeat
Aladdin (2019)
Aladdin (1992)
Alex Cross
Dexter: Early Cuts (S1.E2)
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (S1.E14) 
Aloha
Always
American Hero
Manipulated by Fingers
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 
The Angry Birds Movie
Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie
Animator vs. Animation V
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (S3.E8)
Arctic Dogs 
Are We Done Yet?
Assignment to Kill
Astro Boy
Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potions
Atomic Blonde
Avatar 
Avengers: Infinity War
April and the Extraordinary World 
Game of Thrones (S1.E9)
Leap!
Barbie in a Mermaid Tale 2
Barbie in the Pink Shoes
Batman Returns
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Battle Creek Brawl
Baywatch 
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Money Heist (S2.E6)
Ben 10: Race Against Time 
Beta Test
Clarence (S3.E12)
Bionicle: The Legend Reborn
Black Sheep
Mythbusters (S9.E6)
Family Guy (S6.E1)
Bolt
House (S7.E15)
Bon Bini Holland
Borrowed Time
Bounty Killer
Brainstorming 
Bratz
Calamity Jane: Wild West Legend
Captain America: The First Avenger 
Cars
Cars 2
Lupin (S2.E5)
Stars Wars: Clone Wars (S2.E7)
Stars Wars: Clone Wars (S3.E4)
The Book of Boba Fett (S1.E7)
Chisum
Stars Wars: Clone Wars (S3.E20)
Clash of the Titans
Clifford the Big Red Dog 
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Colin 
Fast & Furious Spy Racers (S2.E4)
Amphibia (S3.E11)
Blindspot (S2.E5)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Corto Maltese (S1.E1)
Community (S3.E18)
Cowboys & Aliens
Cradle 2 the Grave 
Crawlspace
Fantasy Island (S4.E8)
Lego Star Wars: Droid Tales (S1.E2)
Community (S2.E18)
Dragon Wars: D-War
DOA: Dead or Alive
Daddy’s Home
Daddy’s Perfect Little Girl 
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (S7.E7)
Dante’s Peak
Agency of Vengeance: Dark Rising 
Date Movie
Day & Night
De film van Dylan Haegens
Deadpool 2
Lego Star Wars: All-Stars (S1.E3)
Death Proof
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (S2.E20)
Two Is a Family
Despicable Me
Despicable Me 2
Diary of a Wimpy Kid 
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days 
The Goldfish 
Die Hard with a Vengeance 
DieRy
Dinocroc vs. Supergator
Dinoshark
Drawn Together (S1.E6)
Distant Drums
District 9
Django Unchained 
Community (S3.E8)
Doom
Littlest Pet Shop (S1.E23)
Down by the Riverside 
Due Date 
Galavant (S1.E6)
Blizzards of Souls
Maverick (S3.E10)
Ein Rabe namens Poe
Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas
Encanto
Enchanted 
Star Trek Phase II (S1.E6)
Enthiran
Community (S2.E6)
Toren C (S2.E2)
Maverick (S2.E6)
Evening Class
Ever After High: Dragon Games
Everything Wrong with… (S9.E100)
Everything Wrong with… (S10.E105)
Everything Wrong with… (S4.E24)
Regular Show (S4.E1)
Lego Star Wars: Droid Tales (S1.E1)
Explorers 
Extinct
Outlander (S3.E13)
F9: The Fast Saga 
Face Eater 
Fantastic Four
Feast 
Feels Good Man
Doom Patrol (S2.E5)
Lego Star Wars: Droid Tales (S1.E4)
Flushed Away 
Regular Show (S6.E16)
Freddy vs. Ghostbusters
Free Guy
Fresh 
The Simpsons (S28.E2)
The Loud House (S1.E2)
Community (S5.E5)
Getaway
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance 
Ghost Rock
Ghosted 
God of War
God of War III
Golden Dreams
Grabbers
CSI: NY (S1.E4)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Grey Eyes
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
SMG4 (S6.E36)
Guns Akimbo
Family Guy (S20.E14)
Hacksaw Ridge 
Halo Wars
Hancock
Hardcore Henry 
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
Harper 
Hellboy 
Star Wars: Rebels (S3.E5)
Hercules 
The Boys (S3.E6)
Schnitzel Paradise 
Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party 
Epic Rap Battles of History (S3.E1)
Hitman: Agent 47
Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu (S1.E2)
Home Team
Masters of Horror (S1.E6)
Homefront
How 13 Props are Made for Movies and TV
How It Should Have Ended (S9.E2)
How It Should Have Ended (S8.E18)
Howard the Duck
A Frozen Rooster
I Am David
Impasse
In a Valley of Violence
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Inglourious Basterds 
Injustice 
Inspector Gadget (S2.E26)
Community (S2.E17)
Ultimate Spider-Man (S2.E12)
Jason and the Argonauts
Jiu Jitsu 
Jumanji: The Next Level
Juno
Just Visiting 
Justice 
Katy Perry: Roar
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (S3.E10)
Keeping Up with the Joneses
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Cyanide and Happiness Shorts (S1.E140)
Kill Possible 
Nostalgia Critic (S12.E28)
King Kong
Kingdom of Heaven
Klitschko
Knight Rider (S1.E3)
Steven Universe (S4.E2)
Knowing
From Up on Poppy Hill
Kung Fu Panda
Lego Star Wars Summer Vacation 
Dogmatix and the Indomitables (S1.E15)
Land of the Pharaohs
Tad: The Lost Explorer
The Legend of Hallowaiian
Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return
Legion of Iron
Lego Beyond Worlds
Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Maximum Overload
Lego the Lord of the Rings: The Video Game
Leprechaun 6: Back 2 Tha Hood
Lethal Weapon 2
Lethal Weapon 4
License to Wed
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ssreeder · 11 months
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okokokokok. i've read the newest chapter twice to process and now i have thoughts. also hi how are you?!!
so much important stuff happened in this last chapter it's kinda crazy. it's all coming together... like sokka told suki there's someone else (its okay suki!!! she'll understand soon. i feel like she's a pretty empathetic person but like yeah this is hurtful and confusing) any future suki and zuko interactions are gonna be so interesting? wild? idk what word to use or what to expect but i am excited.
also aang's oops moment and now the earth kingdom army know about iroh and there's guards? are guards good or bad or both? im unsure i trust none of these guys. and then of course sokka losing his cool at the general the chapter before hasnt really been addressed either? like what happens when sokka sees them again (or if he finds out jet's involvement...thoughts and prayers jet you'll be so fucked). also the earth kingdom did definitely torture zuko. i don't think team avatar and iroh will love that too much when it comes to light.
and best part for last: the reunion?!?!? oh my god?!? zuko may be on his death bed but will always be conscious enough to tell someone not to touch his man. love that. and then sokka just sitting and talking to him was great and everyone in that room was likely kinda confused and getting some hints about how close they really are- but it doesn't matter!!! they're together again!!! 🎉🥳 pop the champagne!
the parts with the blood were so gross tho oh my god. i could like feel it in my belly. (which is what body horror like imagery should do. you were v successful lmao) i was back and forth between my body cringing at the blood parts and then smiling and happiness because aw theyre cute. a wild reading experience for sure. 10/10
uhhhh cant wait for reunion 2.0 and sokka telling the truth and everything really! hope you have a good week and hope rude commenters fucking leave bc what the hell. ❤️
HI IM GOOD HOW ARE YOU?!?!
Yeah future Suki will probably be much more understand than in-the-moment-Suki. Especially whenever she learns out this mysterious other person is Zuko haha.
Ughhh yeah the whole EK thing involving Zuko & war crimes & who takes the blame and how they will proceed from here is a bit of a mess… some of that gets addressed next chapter but yeah, General How knows Iroh is in the city so that will be interesting how he deals with that news.
(Fingers crossed Jet doesn’t get exposed or Sokka might stab him in his sleep)
Haha Jee & Sokka are destined to just NOT get along it seems haha.
Yeah that bloodbending scene was a whiplash between body horror & AWWWW SOKKA LOVES HIM!! they need their reunion 2.0 though…. Some peace & quiet where Iroh & Jee aren’t silently JUDGING them haha
<3 thanks for the ask!! I hope you enjoy the next chapter!
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sytokun · 2 years
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i was wondering your thoughts on jaune as a character tbh. today i was thinking about atla and where it succeeded versus where rwby failed (especially because miles luna himself has compared rwby to atla multiple times).
one thing i disliked about rwby is that all four of the girls are super important in some way. ruby has silver eyes, weiss is the SDC heiress (richest company in the world), blake is WF leader’s daughter (also from a wealthy family), yang’s mom is a maiden. none of them are normal.
in atla, we have aang (the avatar), katara (who’s the last southern tribe waterbender… kinda?), toph (rich family daughter), zuko (firelord’s son) and sokka… who is completely normal. i like how they have a normal guy in atla which makes him relatable to the viewer.
the problem is in rwby, this normal guy is jaune. who ends up sticking along in the plot and being forced by the writers to be in situations which get him hate from the fndm. miles said jaune is partially inspired by sokka (dorky funny strategist type) but at the same time it means jnpr has to be part of the rwby adventures for jaune to be around. which makes people dislike jaune even more.
i kinda rambled but i was wondering yours thoughts on him? where did he fail where sokka succeeded and so on in your opinion?
Not to mention the inclusion of Oscar who is basically Normal Guy 2.0 before Ozpin came along, but yeah.
Hypothetically, Blake would have been a great everyman type for Team RWBY had she not been revealed to be of noble birth. Had she been written more as an orphan left to fight on the wilds outside the Kingdoms, her humble origin would have been a good contrast to the rest of Team RWBY, and grounded her with the audience within the team.
But in regards to Jaune, I've had some discussions on my server about him, and he's a tough nut to crack. Speaking of his failure within the context of canon, there is a definitely a disconnect between him being essentially a fifth main character and being a part of the B-team.
Another shortcoming is that he often, as many have and will attest, steals moments much better suited for other characters. Him vs. Cinder and killing Penny come to mind, both of which would vastly benefit Ruby more. And I think it's because he doesn't have an arc to speak of, ironically given his name.
For Sokka, he has a very distinct arc and dynamic within the Gaang that doesn't really overlap with the others. Neither Aang, Katara nor Toph are natural skeptics, nor are they non-benders, nor do they have an interest in technology or strategy. And his actual arc revolves around learning to be a man - not immature machismo, but responsibility and virtue. This alone lets Sokka occupy a niche that makes him valuable to the audience, because his unique experience is valuable.
However, Jaune, like Oscar, has many aspects that feel poached from other characters. His struggles as a leader steps on the toes of Ruby's arc as a team leader. His implied backstory as being from a line of famous Hunters can overlap with Weiss and the Schnee legacy (though due to how vague this detail is, there's room to play with this to make it more distinct). His niche as a strategist/tactician also overlaps with Ruby, leaving fans to headcanon distinctions between them, such as making Jaune a more "big picture tactician", while Ruby is a more "boots on the ground" strategist.
But the problem, as seen, lies in the fact that he offers very little to the audience, because what he offers, other characters can too. But because he does a little bit of everything, he is also always a little bit relevant to any situation, inflating his presence but not his importance in the show.
I've seen a post that posits that Jaune was at his most likeable in Volume 7, because there he was playing the role he should be to Team RWBY: a supporting character. While I do agree somewhat with this, as he was at his most likeable, being a sort of anchor trying to stay positive for everyone (nevermind that this is a trait overlapping with Ruby), he was also pretty... harmless?
I suppose it's because I've grown used to his extended presence, but him actually being more in the background also made him feel... kinda basic? There was really nothing too offensive, but also nothing terribly interesting for him to fall back on. He has no unique dynamic to bounce off of, no unique niche to fill. He's just kind of... there, occupying whatever vague role the story needs for him. And that makes him fairly forgettable; likeable only because he was no longer overstaying his welcome.
As for possible solutions, if I had to rework him from the ground up, I'd probably take Jaune in one of two directions, if not a bit of both:
A pampered noble. Lean more into his sheltered upbringing and weak start. He's from a long line of Hunters but for whatever reason was not raised as one or just lacks talent. Like Weiss but without any of the bite.
An underdog. This would work more if he was from more humble origins, but basically a no-name dude trying to work his way from the bottom.
Personally, I would lean more towards Option 1, if only because Oscar is clearly of humble birth and I would want to keep them as distinct from each other as possible. But for both, I would emphasize his underdog vibe as a weak fighter, as that is the one aspect he has in the series that everyone else doesn't.
Oscar would be weak too, but that's because he has no experience nor need to fight up until he joins the plot. But for Jaune, he would just be plain bad. He's bad at fighting even when he wants to be good, given his lineage, and that already creates a solid arc for him to work towards.
While Oscar would be fine with not being a fighter, it would be a source of a massive inferiority complex for Jaune, which totally checks out with how he behaves throughout Volume 1 and Jaunedice - sometimes even sabotaging himself because he's too stubborn to swallow his pride and admit he's weak and needs help, because a scion of a reputable Hunter family shouldn't be this weak.
As for his dynamic with the rest of the cast, knowing this, I'd probably make him incredibly weak, but also incredibly determined. While other characters can be determined too, Jaune would be so to an absurd amount, because he has to make up for his weakness with sheer will and persistence. If he falls down, he would get up more times than everyone else because he falls down more than everyone else. When faced with a problem, his natural inclination would just be to throw himself at it until either side yields.
This would be compatible with him having lots of Aura too. He's like a rock - uncomplicated in nature and immovable when it counts. Rather than make him a tactician, I'd make him the source of morale of the cast. People would be inspired by Jaune because even if he doesn't contribute much to a fight, he'll always be the last one standing; and seeing him would encourage the others to stand back up and continue fighting.
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is interesing the rot avatar had a diferent staff from erdtree avatar, what could mean the rotted erdtree avatar isnt a erdtree avatar infected with scarlet rot, rotten staff is more ornamental and made from a grey stone while staff of avatar is gold , maybe they are mean to represent the halightree and leyndell architeture.
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That's a nice catch!
Yes, Rotten Staff is modelled after Haligtree, but I'm confused by the description, according to which it portrays the Erdtree (in JP too)
Ceremonial staff depicting the Erdtree in its historic radiance. Wielded by the avatars who protect the Minor Erdtrees. The avatars, emerging in the wake of the Elden Ring's shattering, were determined to protect the withering Erdtree's offspring (Staff of the Avatar)
Ceremonial staff depicting the Erdtree in its historic radiance. It festers with scarlet rot. Wielded by the avatars who protect the Minor Erdtrees (Rotten Staff)
Was it an oversight from the writing team? Miquella and Haligtree lore is really messy sometimes. Okay, I'll try to find an explanation. Maybe it's Crucible/Erdtree situation; the Crucible is a primordial form of the Erdtree and technically it's the same thing. Crucible incantations are using the same background icon as incantations from the age of an ancient Erdtree, the source of their power is the same thing.
From description of Haligtree Crest Surcoat we can learn that Haligtree was supposed to replace the dying Erdtree (it's pretty much dead, I'll explain it my overview of the group of the Erdtree/Golden Order incantations).
The surcoat bears the crest of the Haligtree. Though watered with Miquella's own blood since it was a sapling, the Haligtree ultimately failed to grow into an Erdtree
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As we can see in Elphael this poor rotten stump definitely failed to grow into anything, it's nowhere close the imagery that Miquella uses to portray... the future form of the Erdtree 2.0
So, maybe the same text is kind of like a dark humor from writers, where "Erdtree in its historic radiance" in the description of Rotten Staff used sarcastically.
There was an attempt to grow new Erdtree just like there was an attempt to explain Elden Ring plot holes.
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Alrighty, now that I've taunted my dog (mostly unintentionally) with popcorn, time for Episode #12 of the final season of the Flash.
Starts with a trippy recap of Eddie's breakdown as he finally remembers who he really is. Korber hanging out with him for now as the voice of reason which he rejects. She's got a point - he could be a clone or a cyborg.
Eddie - I need to find the Flash.
He's still keeping Barry's secret there. Anyway, this is how Westhallen can still win... *he has to find Iris when he starts to remember her, then has to find Barry after remembering him... Westhallen, Westhallen, Westhallen...*
When Korber tries to stop Eddie, the singularity from the S1 finale comes back briefly to eat her. That, uh... that made no sense. But, okay, moving on, opening credits time.
Khione and Iris playing telephone via Allegra. That's gotta be a bit annoying for Iris.
SF!Nora giving more exposition. 2049 must be when Eddie is since the N!SF is clearly gearing him up for the open avatar position and it's headed that way, dragging Barry along for the ride. How exactly killing the Barry Allen of 2023 in the year 2049 would destroy the timeline as it stands from 2000 to 2023 I have no idea, but it wouldn't be the first time they've had an evil plot that makes no sense nearly erase Barry from existence, so... *shrug*
So it's 2049 and everyone appears to have stopped aging. Cecile has a touch of gray hair in like... two small places. Maybe. Allegra's got a track suit as her super suit. I mean, better than a rainbow robe, but... she looks like she bought it at a sporting goods store.
Chester - Who would suspect Team Flash works under the Flash Museum? Cut to Eddie looking for Barry in the museum.
lol
Though, seriously, the museum was originally HR's idea. I miss him. It was a good idea. And I'm glad someone - Chester, I suppose - finally went through with it at some point.
Poor Eddie, finding out that his death didn't stop the Reverse Flash from returning while at the museum. Blonde!Nora who shows up to further screw with Eddie's mind is clearly the N!SF appearing for him. Not exactly creative, but the N!SF is showing Eddie something that's Barry's - a daughter he had with Iris - and saying 'what if this was yours? She should have been yours, after all.'
And there's the singularity again, created by the N!SF Nora. (So many Noras...)
I do love that real Nora recognizes Eddie on sight.
Allegra - Why is he here and why hasn't he aged a day? Me - You're one to talk. It's been about twenty-five years, you look like you're still in your twenties.
Eddie opening the singularities in moments of high emotion makes sense - I like the comparison to that time Chester was a black hole.
Eddie's expression when Nora's mask comes off... heartbreaking since the N!SF manipulated him into seeing her as his daughter first. He's having such a terrible day.
Meanwhile back at the ranch (2023), Mark professes his love of Barry Allen. I don't ship it.
Nora is the next victim of the N!SF's cobalt blue crystal of evilness. Which makes the most sense out of everyone it's possessed so far. Nora 1.0 actually used the N!SF at one point, which could be a point of vulnerability for Nora 2.0 since the N!SF has familiarity with her mind.
And of course, Nora's the perfect person to keep manipulating Eddie with - after all, just the image of her earlier was nearly enough to get Eddie to follow her into the singularity.
Past Cecile possessing her future self was nifty, but of course it goes wrong because of her confidence issues.
N!SF possessing Nora and harping on Eddie being forgotten by history despite how obvious it isn't he hasn't been forgotten. Not by the police force or Team Flash or by the people who loved him most. But I can also see why Eddie is struggling to see that - because it's hard feeling left behind, like they all moved on and had amazing lives and his stopped before he achieved all the things he wanted in his life.
Korber, the rookie, is Captain of the CCPD and maybe that's something Eddie wanted for himself when he was a Detective. He loved Iris and they were going to get married, but now she's married to Barry instead. Nora is representative of that relationship leading to at least one kid (where is Bart, anyway?) and the museum shows how Barry's legacy as the Flash has only continued to grow. For Eddie, everything stopped in a single moment, in a choice he can't take back but wishes he could.
With all that regret, it's hard for him to see how all the good he did do still lives on.
And Eddie is still trying to resist the N!SF's manipulations.
Barry arrives! Just in time for N!SF to use Nora to kick his ass. But Eddie interrupts and Barry runs off with Eddie. Soooo happy to see Eddie. HUGS!!!!
Look, seriously, this is how Westhallen can still win!!!
Eddie calls him Bar, I've missed that. (still chanting 'Westhallen' mentally, mmkay)
Eddie finally feeling safe enough to break down crying because Barry's there with him. He'd been looking for Barry because Barry would know what to do. And now, finally, he's found Barry and they start piecing together what's happening.
okay, so 2049 is when Jenna isn't gonna be living with Cecile and Joe anyway, so what's to say Joe isn't going back and forth between Central City and the other place with Cecile anyway? Cecile is freaking out over something she has no real context for. Though I think this backs up my comments from previous episodes where I noted Cecile would be happier if she'd left with Joe and Jenna and only commuted for her lawyer work.
Eddie - What if the only way for me not to die is to agree to be the avatar. Barry - no, we'll find a way to save you. Not letting you die again.
Eddie listening to the voices in his head instead of Barry. Oh, yeah, that'll go over well.
So, Eddie high on the N!SF's corruption sounds a hell of a lot like Eobard. Which brings me back to the question of whether Eobard is the way he is because the N!SF corrupted him or if the N!SF is the way it is because it patterned itself after it's creator. Clearly it's corrupting Eddie into being more like Eobard.
Barry vs possessed Nora is an awesome fight to watch. They're just playing tag all over the city.
Aww, "It's me. Your Eddie."
Iris with the gray in her hair. Why is she the only one allowed to age?
I mean... I get that artificially aging actors always winds up looking ridiculous, but not aging them makes it look like they found the fountain of youth. There has to be some kind of balance...
Eddie still wants to do the right thing at this point, even if it means dying again. He just wanted to see Iris one last time. But the N!SF takes advantage of that, causing him to see the picture change and... Eddie's real self gets subsumed by the corruption. Like a switch flipped.
Cecile finally got to be badass on screen. Finally.
So Iris saying it was always Barry is completely opposite of the choice Iris made in S1. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Iris choose Eddie over Barry in S1. Even knowing how she felt about Barry at the end of the season, she chose Eddie.
Denying that now insults S1 Iris' choice. It's making Iris say that yes, everyone knew better than her what her own feelings were. And as someone who has had people claim to know my feelings better than I do over and over again over the years, I really, really hate that. They weren't right with me and Iris should be allowed to say that she knew her own mind too. That she chose Eddie. But he died and she moved on and the life she has now is also one she chose. And one that she'll fight to keep because it's hers.
okay, so the timeline destructing finally makes sense, mostly
Barry - You're as beautiful as the day we got married. Iris - I haven't seen you like this in so long. It's weird.
*snicker* Though, uh, no one else has aged, so I wouldn't think 2049 Barry has either.
Oh, hey, there goes Barry getting yoinked through time again.
Eddie gets one final temptation and gives in to the crystal to deliberately open a singularity. Apparently to summon up four speedsters whom Barry defeated before. The ghosts of failed speedsters past, or whatever.
Thus endeth the episode.
I'm not sure how well Eddie's feelings of entitlement towards Iris actually work for me? I mean... in S1, the person who acted the most entitled towards Iris was... Barry. And Barry's grown up a lot since then. I mean, Eddie's mind screw works pretty well over all, but it wasn't in S1 Eddie to force Iris to be with him if that isn't what she wanted. And that should be where the N!SF fails with Eddie and has to backtrack. That it's where it succeeds instead...
It kinda feels like they're slamming an Eddie shaped puzzle piece into a picture that it doesn't actually fit.
I am still wondering what's up with the blue flowers. O_o
I think I'm also disappointed that the Cobalt Blue we seem to be getting is in name only.
We've got the Cobalt Blue Crystal of EVIL which just... possess people. Eddie seems to have power over the singularities, which he likely received with the accelerator exploded but weren't triggered until his death.
Cobalt Blue, however, had the power of the Thawne family blue flames. These could heal, create temporary objects from the flames, or temporarily steal powers from other metas. Malcolm used those powers to attempt to steal Barry's speed at least once, though there was a gem involved in that so the N!SF's crystal is likely a reference to that. But overall... this isn't really Cobalt Blue we seem to be getting. And I'm not surprised given what spoilers I've seen, but I'm still bummed about it.
One episode left to go.
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Husky Lemur 3.0 + my mom & aunt’s birthday sketch portraits: the two small pictures on top of my big picture in this 3 in 1 tumblr post are my Aunt: Andrea "Rea" Caster, and my mom: Sally Roten, as huntresses like the titular huntress quartet known as Team RWBY, my Aunt in the purple tailored Ruby Rose clothes has purple nunchuck-shotguns like how the Monkey Faunus: Sun Wukong does, and my Mom in the green tailored Yang Xiao Long clothes has twin melee-ranged hybrid round shields that can both turn into arm blades as well as into crossbows too, and the big picture below my mom & aunt’s huntress portraits my 3.0 design improvement on my DreamKeeper Fursona/Avatar: Husky Lemur, only he now has hind legs again but with a new inspiration twist being that ol' Husk now has that Mudokon/Abe’s bipedal hind legs hybrid design from the Oddworld games these days, and my fursona now has those bipedal prehensile hybrid feet inspired by the early mirage & rise Ninja Turtles’ feet these days too, I’ve also given Husky Lemur that Gold Amp DLC weapon from Infamous 2 (which I used to play, back in my PS3 days of course), as his personal weapon since its my favorite DLC weapon from Infamous 2 I tell ya' folks what, drawing Husky Lemur with Mace the Cat-Raccoon style hind legs were really hard to draw how ol' Husk would run, walk, sit, and rest etc, back in 2014 to 2017 of course, so I made my fursona’s 2.0 design with just regular bipedal legs and a lemur tail to make him exactly like he’s part lemur & part husky since 2018, until 5 years later in 2023, Husky now has a 3.0 improved redesign, and I hope you folks like this new design change as well my mom & aunt’s huntress portraits too of course.
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If Jeremy Belpois was petty to the writers.
Thomas Romain: Aw yeah. Things are looking up. We've got Code Lyoko: Evolution in the works, a more orchestrated version of "A World Without Danger" for the theme, live action, and cleaner 3d models, it's gonna be lit!
Tania Palumbo: Heck yeah! And the first episode is gonna be called "X.A.N.A. 2.0" so people know what's up! And we're bringing William back and making him a full member of the team! So looking forward to this!
Jeremy: Uh, guys?
Thomas: Oh, hey Jeremy! What are you doing here?
Jeremy: Well, I just heard the news about what's gonna go down in the new sequel series and I just wanted to ask you something.
Tania: Oh, well, go ahead! We're all ears!
Jeremy: Yeah, um, why don't I have a Lyoko avatar?
Thomas: Uhhh
Jeremy: It's just something that's been bugging me. I mean, you pretty much kept brushing me off with this throughout the original and when I heard we were getting a sequel, I thought, "Oh, maybe now's my chance" but now I'm hearing I'm still not getting a 3d model?!?
Tania: Look, Jeremy, we can explain-
Jeremy: What's there to explain?!? You had me be the face of the show constantly in the original, having me look ridiculously goofy in the cover art as a 2d character next to everyone's 3d Lyoko models, and now that you have a bigger budget for cleaner animation, you're just gonna brush me off again?!?
Thomas: Jeremy, you're the computer guy! We needed someone to-
Jeremy: To look after the supercomputer every episode. I get it. In the first few seasons, I was the only one who could work the supercomputer, but you lost that excuse when Aelita was finally de-virtualized and was just as proficient with the supercomputer as I was. Plus, how many times did the others have to step up and take over when I was out? Heck, Sissy took over once and we got through!
Tania: Ok, that's fair. But it's not like we left fans without a reason! You were scared of the scanners!
Jeremy: You lost that excuse the day you had Aelita scan me into that little bubble of 2d animation where I still didn't get a Lyoko model, btw! That could've been my debut! I finally wasn't afraid of the scanners anymore and could've walked out of there looking GOATed!
Thomas: We just didn't think people would be that interested since you're-
Jeremy: A nerd, right? So, you're telling me the fans wouldn't have cared and I didn't get enough clout to have my own Avatar despite being the face of the show???
Writers: ...
Jeremy: And it's not like you didn't have concept art from the beginning, I mean look at this!
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Thomas: Oh, come on! You gotta admit, the elf look is cute but not as awesome as the others. Plus, the Legend of Zelda fandom would've been after us faster than an actual XANA attack!
Jeremy: So, you don't think after all this time, you could've edited it to look better? Alright bet, let me show you something. Do the words "Code Lyoko: Overpowered" ring a bell to you?
Thomas: OH-
Jeremy: Yeah, I want you to take one look at this and tell me there's no drip here:
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Tania: You gotta admit, this has more drip than a waterfall.
Thomas: *sigh* Tania, you're not helping.
Jeremy: I could've been something huge, man! My glasses could've been upgraded to goggles, I could've had tech gear, I could've had drip! You totally f***ed me up! I could've led the team in both the real world and cyberspace.
Thomas: Even if we gave you an avatar, what powers would we even give you?!? You're literally just skilled with the computer and the program upgrades your physical skills.
Jeremy: Oh wow, that's a tough one. Just as a thought, maybe you could've, I don't know, BASED IT OFF OF AELITA'S POWERS! Dude, before the energy spheres, she barely had anything either and she was still a major asset. I could've been another character that could deactivate the towers! Do you know how many of our problems would've been solved if the team had a backup key!
Tania: I mean, then the stakes wouldn't have been as high.
Jeremy: We are dealing with a sentient program bent on world domination and you're saying the stakes aren't high enough? If literally any of the towers or replicas weren't stopped in time, WHAT WERE WE GONNA DO??? We would've been TOAST!
Thomas: Ok, maybe you have a point.
Jeremy: Even then, I still could've had other powers. Do you realize how OP I would've been with my computer knowledge put to work inside the actual computer? I could've had a holographic keyboard giving us all kinds of access while still virtualized! I could've been out here flying, shutting monsters down left and right, I could've been a GOD in Lyoko! You robbed me of that!
Thomas: And what if XANA 2.0 got you? What if we had another William situation on our hands, what would you have done?
Jeremy: Well, one of two things would've happened. Either (1), the whole thing would've lasted an episode with Aelita using the program we used to bring back William or (2) We would've had a whole arc of trying to get me back while also showing my thoughts merged with XANA 2.0's and given us more insight into the character, which would've gotten the fans even more invested! We could've found out whether XANA 2.0 had its father's memories of being left behind by Franz Hopper, why it wanted to take over the world in the first place, whether William ever had some kind of impact on it. WE COULD'VE HAD A DEEPER STORYLINE GOING HERE!
Tania: Not gonna lie, that is pretty good. It would've had me invested.
Jeremy: But no, you still think people are just gonna brush me off as a nerd despite my live-action counterpart looking like Cody Martin with glasses right before he evolved into Jughead Jones. I could've been something, man! You f***ed me up you godd*** f***ing imbecile!
Thomas: How are you even censoring your curses right now?!?
Jeremy: I hacked this conversation and now can curse like a motherf***ing sailor! That's how f***ing GOATed I am!
Tania: We really should've given him an Avatar.
Thomas: Dammit...
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whxre-bxby · 10 months
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Something I noticed in ATWOW
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The production team like to recycle scenes to save time and effort. So why hire new actors when you can re-use already hired ones on set for minor side characters.
The Avatar Norm is talking to, completely resembles the exact features of Mansk which probably mean they used Kevin Dorman for that character too.
The other Avatar sitting down in the foreground looks extremely similar to Neteyam, meaning they probably used Jamie for him.
I just thought it was interesting
(side note: MANSK 2.0 BE LOOKING FINE ASF)
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Top 5 @Wikipedia pages from a year ago: Wednesday, 4th January 2023
Welcome, velkomin, velkommen, welcome 🤗 What were the top pages visited on @Wikipedia (4th January 2023) 🏆🌟🔥?
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1️⃣: Damar Hamlin "Damar Romeyelle Hamlin (; born March 24, 1998) is an American football safety for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at the University of Pittsburgh and was selected by the Bills in the sixth round of the 2021 NFL Draft. Hamlin spent most of his..."
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2️⃣: 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election "2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election may refer to: January 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election October 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election..."
3️⃣: Byron Donalds "Byron Lowell Donalds (born October 28, 1978) is an American politician and financial professional serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 19th congressional district since 2021. His district, which was once represented by former senator Connie Mack III and former CIA Director Porter Goss,..."
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4️⃣: Avatar: The Way of Water "Avatar: The Way of Water is a 2022 American epic science fiction film co-produced and directed by James Cameron, who co-wrote the screenplay with Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver from a story the trio wrote with Josh Friedman and Shane Salerno. Distributed by 20th Century Studios, it is the sequel to..."
5️⃣: Ken Block "Kenneth Paul Block (November 21, 1967 – January 2, 2023) was an American professional rally driver with the Hoonigan Racing Division, formerly known as the Monster World Rally Team. Block was also one of the co-founders of DC Shoes. He also competed in many action sports events, including..."
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Avatar DND session 12 was yesterday. Here’s the summary. Things are finally beginning to come together!
TLDR;; We survived our latest encounter with the Avatar and sought refuge at the training ground we passed a couple sessions ago, and decided to take the time to train body and mind. Seems like there’s some fishy things going on with this place though, and we get a BIG hint about the nature of the Dai Li’s plans.
Unfortunately while trying to paste my notes into here, I accidentally deleted them. ALL of them. Fuck me asdhdkdl. So my notes won’t be nearly as good this time around.
For clarification going forward:
“Dai Li” = the collective organization of Dai Li agents
“Dai Lee” = the actual leader of the Dai Li and man for which the organization is named
We open on our heroes in the boats, sailing away from the Central Air Temple. There are distant booms and flashes of light in the distance as Maika and the dragon shark clash. After a while, it’s silent. Klo finishes what healing she can do on the unconscious Juno, and they sail along in silence.
Kelsang takes the moment of quiet to read through the pages that he ripped from the book of forbidden bending last session. I’ll post to actual notes separately, because our DM actually went to the trouble to type out the full pages. Basically, it covers cruel and forbidden techniques for airbending, mindbending, bloodbending, earthbending, and spiritbending. Reading this takes Kelsang a while because his poor pacifist soul finds it all hard to stomach, and he has to take breaks every once in a while. He’s typically not a person who thinks any sort of knowledge should be forbidden (evidenced by the fact that he reached for Panggu’s very clearly forbidden book without hesitation in his near death experience), but the nature of these passages has him wondering why the airbenders had this in their library.
Chai Li eventually notices the look of disgust on his face and asks what he’s reading. Kelsang explains, and then says even as hard as it is for him to read, he still wants to share it with them. They’ve already run into benders using some of these techniques, and he thinks it’s in their best interest for everyone to know what they’re up against so maybe they can come up with ways to counter them.
Chai Li, of course, volunteers to read first, and Kelsang hesitates. The mindbending chapter was very heavy on the fact that mindbenders need intel and need to know their targets to be effective. Seeing as Kelsang is about 90% sure Chai Li is a mindbender, but 0% sure he’s not spying for the Dai Li and feeding them intel about the group—he’s not super keen to give them to him.
So, he says before he gives these pages to Chai Li, he wants to hear some honesty out of him for once. He finally forces the conversation by asking Chai Li directly how he and Juno were able to survive their encounter with Maika. Chai Li spins some bad lie about how Maika was so overcome with emotion and focused on Juno that she just didn’t notice him. Kelsang doesn’t buy it and asks what Juno meant when she asked Chai Li to help her dampen Maika’s emotions. After all, they ALL heard Juno ask this of him, and she didn’t even try to hide it. Why did she need him, specifically, to help her with this? Chai Li dodges the question and asks why they’re so suspicious of him? They already know he’s double crossing the Dai Li, so what’s the issue? Kelsang tells him if they’re going to face Dai Lee and want to avoid becoming Team Avatar 2.0 and slaughtering each other, they can’t have any suspicions or seeds of doubt against each other that Dai Lee can exploit. Secrets are no longer a luxury they can afford to have. Klo echoes her agreement and almost ends up repeating Juno’s private conversation with Chai Li last session verbatim, saying they need to know the truth now so they can learn to trust him.
Chai Li is still hesitant, but reads the room and senses the emotions around him ranging from suspicion to frustration, but decides there’s no outright hostility. Finally, he fesses up and admits that yes, he’s a mindbender, to the surprise of absolutely no one.
Kelsang and Klo follow up with more questions about the nature of his relationship with the Dai Li. How do they know he’s not feeding information back to Dai Lee? Chai Li explains that his relationship with the Dai Li is “conflicted” because he once thought the Dai Li were fighting for the greater good, but discovered Dai Lee’s motives were selfish and his methods no better than the royals and nobles he claimed to be against. He also explains that he’s taking a huge risk to his safety by telling them all this, because when people stop being useful to Dai Lee…they’re disposed of.
The group seems to accept this answer with some hesitance. Obviously trust will still take some time to build since Chai Li has been lying to them for so long, but with that confession, Kelsang is willing to let him look at the pages. Eventually everyone gets a chance to read them while on watch, except Flamer who was too depressed about his lack of bending to read them.
They sleep in shifts and travel through the night. Near sunrise, Syntagma spots something in the distance and realizes it’s the dragon shark. He doesn’t want to deal with this alone, so he wakes up Flamer, since he was the one to make a deal with the dragon.
The dragon causes a splash that wakes everyone else (except Juno) as it pulls up beside the boats. It explains that it fought the Avatar, but she escaped, and now he wishes for Flamer to take him to the spirit world. Flamer says he doesn’t want to make the trip twice, so can they just go in 30 days? The dragon agrees, but asks why they are going to the spirit world. Flamer explains they’re going to fight some mindbenders, which surprisingly, causes the dragon to recoil. Flamer asks why the dragon would be afraid of mindbenders, and the dragon tells them about the original mindbenders—cuttlecobras—which hypnotize their prey and are considered the apex predators of the ocean. All creatures fear them, but his grandfather was able to survive an encounter with them. They live in tunnels under the sea. Before he leaves, Kelsang asks where the Avatar is now, and the dragon only says that she fled to the east faster than he could follow. The party is currently heading east…
Someone asks if Juno would have any idea if the Avatar would know where to find them. Klo splashes a little water on her to wake her up gently. Juno says Maika’s mental state was scrambled, and she thought Maika was probably just trying to find a place to be alone rather than pursue them. She still isn’t doing too great and says she’s cold, then asks if Flamer could make a little fire to warm her up. Flamer reminds her that no, he can’t do that, and she sighs, remembering that he’s not a bender anymore.
Kelsang remembers that lionhawks can breathe fire, and coaxes Meow into breathing some fire in her vicinity by yawning until the cat let out a little fire yawn. It wasn’t super effective and may have singed the edges of Juno’s clothes a little, but she seemed to warm up a bit.
The boats approach the shore and everyone rolls a dexterity saving throw. Everyone passes except Syntagma, who falls ungracefully off the boat into the surf. The dragon dust in his pocket gets soaked and he’s about the dump it, but Kelsang manages to salvage it for paint/ink later.
Now that they’re ashore, the party discusses what to do next. They really need to find a safe place to rest and to hide Juno, since she’s a wanted criminal. Someone suggests they just go back to the shop they got the boats from, since that whole area is closed down for the off season anyway. Everyone agrees, and after a while, they figure out how to stack the boats so that they can be carried with Juno inside one of them. Kelsang scouts ahead to make sure there is no one in the resort town before the party makes their way to the boat shop with Juno.
They get her settled in and comfortable, and she insists the party go train body and mind at the nearby training camp. Gods know they’ll need it.
The party makes their way down to the camp. At first they just kind of stand around awkwardly, unsure where to start. Flamer notices someone he used to idolize—a firebender named Trail Blazer who used to go around putting on shows. He turns to Klo and remarks how amazing it is that he’s here, but Klo doesn’t really seem to care. Unsatisfied, Flamer tries Kelsang, who rolls a nat 1 on his history check and thinks Flamer is talking about a totally different person. Chai Li doesn’t follow sports. Syntagma engages with him only because Trail Blazer’s earthbending counterpart, Landslide, is also there, so they spend a moment arguing over who would win in a fight.
Then Chai Li, now that he has read the mindbending chapter and learned that mindbending is actually a substyle of waterbending, works up the courage to go talk to the waterbenders. He asks them to try and just teach him the basics. One of them grabs a bucket of water and tries to get him doing a motion to make waves in the water, but he can’t make it move at all. In reality Chai Li rolled low, but narratively, the mindbending chapter mentioned that strong waterbenders are unable to waterbend and typically strong mindbenders can’t waterbend in a traditional sense. Most people have an affinity for one or the other.
As an important side note, the end of this chapter mentioned that the Avatar could theoretically mindbend whole nations of people to their will, but this is complicated by the fact that, by definition, the Avatar is an extremely powerful waterbender and would not have the affinity for mindbending. The chapter was about to go into a “workaround” for how the Avatar was could mindbend, but it was missing because Kelsang’s dumb ass didn’t grab that page when he was ripping them out of the book. This detail absolutely won’t be important later. /s
Anyway, one of the waterbenders, Laminar, laughs at Chai Li and comments on how terrible he is at it. Just then, Chai Li notices someone he recognizes, an undercover Dai Li agent named Kayita. Kayita suggests they go spar, Chai Li agrees, and goes to grab a wooden staff for their sparring match.
Meanwhile, Reiker, the fire bending leader of this training camp, notices the party and LOUDLY exclaims that “Team Avatar” has arrived, asks them if they found the Avatar, and how all that went? Kelsang tries to get him to shut up to preserve what little cover they have left…and also because he’s uncomfortable being associated with someone who destroyed his home and slaughtered his friends and neighbors. Reiker kind of shrugs it off and asks them if they’re there to train, and once he gets a positive answer, starts explaining the rules.
The rules are pretty simple. Anything goes, unless you agree to different rules with your opponent. No maiming, killing, or otherwise causing permanent injury. The match ends if someone is knocked out of the ring, surrenders, or falls unconscious. Simple enough. Everyone gets paired off.
Kelsang ends up fighting Laminar, the waterbender who was mocking Chai Li. Kelsang strikes first with a well aimed blast of air that causes Laminar to fall on her face, but she gets back up quickly and smacks Kelsang in the ribs with a ball of ice. He manages to somewhat block it and retaliates quickly, whipping up a cushion of air to sweep her off her feet and carry her gently out of the ring. Kelsang wins and only takes 2 points of damage. Laminar is obviously not pleased that it ended so quickly and glares at him, to which Kelsang simply smiles smugly in response.
Klo fights an unnamed airbender who is good enough to have his tattoos. She tries to lasso him with a water whip, but he bends air in the opposite direction to protect himself. He then sweeps her up with a blast of air and drops her, causing her to take fall damage. Klo is fast to get up though and bends a block of ice that she then uses to shove him out of the ring. Klo wins.
Flamer fights an airbender named…Ong—who was basically just Aang—an 11 year old kid, very friendly, outgoing, etc. They agree to anything goes, then Ong promptly pulls out a glider and flies up 50 feet in the air. Flamer, who didn’t bother to grab a weapon for this, obviously can’t hit him and starts to argue that he’s out of the ring, because there has to be some kind of upper limit. The kid eventually agrees to come down, but does in such a way that he lets out a shockwave of air when he lands that throws Flamer back. Flamer responds by getting up and—trying to punch the kid in the face, but he misses. The kid wraps his legs around Flamer, flies up a little bit, and then drops him so he takes fall damage. He lands, then Flamer manages to tackle him to the ground. Ong isn’t upset by this at all and compliments Flamer on what a good attack that was! Then he wriggles away, and Flamer tries to follow up with a flying knee, which Ong partially blocks with an air blast. The kid then blasts Flamer out of the ring. Ong wins, and is super psyched about it because it was such a good fight! He asks for Flamer’s autograph. Flamer is flattered and obliges, and comments that he wasn’t always a nonbender and used to be a firebender. Ong thinks this is amazing and begs Flamer to tell him the story. Flamer then spins a story about how he was outnumbered 300 to 1 and fought valiantly til the end. When he died he went to the spirit world, and fought an evil spirit for 20 days and 20 nights. The spirit took his bending but Flamer was able to find his way back to the mortal world. Now he’s going back to the spirit world to find this spirit. Ong is amazed and wants to come too. Flamer tries to dissuade him, but the kid is pretty convincing, and Flamer decides to entertain the idea, since Ong is better at flying around and stuff than Kelsang (ouch), which could be useful. He says they need to ask Ong’s parents though, so Ong says they can ask his mom and starts leading Flamer to her.
Syntagma fights yet another airbender, this one designed by the DM to have the douchey personality of Justin Bieber. Syntagma starts by unsuccessfully trying to bend dust into the kid’s face. When it doesn’t work, the kid responds by showing Syntagma how it’s actually done and bends dust into his face right back. Syntagma tries to bend a pillar of rock to knock the kid out of the ring, but misses. Bieber bender responds by bending a focused blast of air into Syntagma’s chest to knock him back. It’s about now that Syntagma realizes he’s having trouble breathing. He tries again to launch Bieber bender out of the ring with a slab of earth, and although it gets him airborne, he just floats back into the ring. Beiber bender then bends dust into Syntagma’s face at close range, and this time he starts coughing blood. It’s around this time that Kelsang finishes his match and notices that something isn’t quite right. Syntagma tries bending some rock bullets at the kid, but misses and is really starting to struggle. Finally, he finds some kind of old man strength, Beiber bender fails his saving throw with a nat 1, and Syntagma is able to grab him by the throat and throw him out of the ring. Syntagma wins.
Chai Li and Kayita start their match with Chai Li armed with a wooden staff and Kayita going weaponless. Chai Li starts off strong with a fakeout that ended in him smacking Kayita in the shoulder hard enough to hurt. Kayita evidently thought they were just pretending to fight so they could talk, and whisper shouts to Chai Li he didn’t know they were fighting for real! Then he gut punches him. It really just goes downhill for Chai Li after that. Chai Li tried to hit Kayita again, but fails a saving throw and misses. The failed wisdom save implies Kayita was actually mindbending him into missing. Kayita then gut punches Chai Li again. Chai Li tries to retaliate, but Kayita flips over his head and wraps his legs around him. They both end up on the ground with Chai Li in a chokehold. Chai Li realizes he’s outmatched and yields. Kayita wins. Chai Li tries to bow respectfully and leave, but Kayita follows him.
Meanwhile, Ong brings Flamer to his mom, who turns out to be Laminar. Ong starts begging her to let him go, to which Laminar responds with a resounding no. Also, what is this creep Flamer doing with her child? Flamer says something about getting kids real world experience, because homeschooled kids can miss out on that. Laminar is not convinced and just thinks Flamer is a creep. About this time, Chai Li wanders over and asks who Ong’s dad is since Laminar is very obviously not an airbender? Laminar replies that he’s a “very powerful airbender who’s too good for those temples.” This immediately sets off alarm bells, but Chai Li keeps pressing her for information. He asks the dad’s name, and Laminar suddenly gets defensive and refuses to say it. Chai Li tries to project feelings of pride for her son and his heritage into her mind, and she finally elaborates a little, saying again that he’s the most powerful airbender she’s ever seen, and that he could kill them in an instant. Geez, okay. Chai Li thinks they should go, but Flamer tries one more time to recruit the kid. He whispers “if you want to go to the South Pole, meet us by the boats in two weeks”, but rolls a nat 1 on stealth and Laminar hears him. Flamer suddenly feels an icy cold grip his chest and doubles over. Fine, ruin your child’s life then! He tries to run but rolls another nat 1, and Laminar drops an ice filled bucket on him as he flees.
Meanwhile, Kayita catches up with Chai Li and says they gotta talk. They wander off someplace alone, but Chai Li starts saying something about how they need to get a cover story straight for how they know each other and why they’re talking, and starts saying something about how their parents knew each other— Kayita finds this weird and says they were just sparring, so obviously they’re just chatting about that? Why is Chai Li being so cagey and weird about it? It’s unnatural, loosen up. Anyway, he asks where the fuck Chai Li disappeared to after the summer conclave. Chai Li says he might be on a new mission, and he needs to keep his cover. Kayita says what the fuck, you were just supposed to gather intel at the summer conclave, now you’re out here with a bunch of randos? Apparently the last place Chai Li was seen was talking to the head of the League Against Mindbending (the guy who sent the party out to find Juno) and it was raising suspicions, especially since Chai Li hadn’t checked in since then. Chai Li says he had to maintain his cover so he played along and agreed to go out in search of the Avatar (a lie, since they were actually looking for Juno). Kayita says cool I guess, but Dai Lee already had very reliable intel on the Avatar and the fact that she will be at the South Pole in a month, so Chai Li knows what that means, right? No, he doesn’t, and he says as much. Kayita is visibly confused and goes on to say that this project to trap the Avatar has been in the works for three years, how could be possibly NOT know? It’s all hands on deck, what part of that does he not understand? Does Dai Lee not trust him or what? Chai Li says he can’t pretend to know Dai Lee’s reasons for not telling him, but maybe Kayita can fill him in on the “project”. Kayita refuses, saying there must be a reason that Dai Lee didn’t tell him, and that Chai Li really needs to go check in. Chai Li says he can’t risk blowing his cover and that what he’s doing is really important, and suggests Kayita could file a report on his behalf. Chai Li is somehow convincing enough and Kayita agrees, not believing Chai Li to be compromised.
They don’t want to be seen together too much, so Chai Li makes his way back to the group, who are now distracted by a new spectacle.
Trail Blazer is fighting a waterbending and using all kinds of fancy moves—blades of fire, setting the ground alight, etc. Eventually the waterbender must leap back to avoid the flames licking at his feet, and while the waterbender is airborne, Blaze slashes him across the chest with a blade of fire. The waterbender is down, but instead of ending the fight, Blaze jumps on top of him and starts beating him senseless. Various members of the party are shocked, and eventually Reiker comes over to see what the fuss is about.
When he sees the scene in front of him, he intervenes. Blaze asks what a nonbender like Reiker is doing here, and Reiker simply responds that he’s been warned about this before, he’s done for the day. Blaze says he didn’t realize the waterbender was unconscious and he hadn’t surrendered so… Anything goes right?
The argument escalates and the two begin circling each other. A fight erupts, through which Reiker emerges victories and Blaze is laid out unconscious.
The party has some questions, especially about that nonbender comment! Reiker agrees to tell them the story. Turns out, he was born a nonbender, but one day was able to visit the spirit world. He spent a long time there, and one day he met a dragon spirit. The dragon judged him to be true of heart and granted him the ability to bend fire. So, now he uses his bending to help train and uplift others. An all around wholesome story.
He goes on to explain that he and Blaze have…history, in which at least once Blaze laid Reiker out after challenging him on his treatment of another person. Blaze apparently has a history of going too far.
Speaking of too far, Syntagma starts coughing again and Kelsang is reminded of how his match didn’t seem right! After confirming that Syntagma is okay, he asks how an airbender could put him in this state. Syntagma answers that whatever the kid did made it feel like his lungs were on fire. This sounds a lot like some of the stuff from the forbidden bending book, so Kelsang mentions to Reiker that there might be someone else acting in an unsportsmanlike manner.
Reiker takes this very seriously and asks Syntagma to point out the kid. They then all go over to confront him. Bieber bender is obviously defensive and argues that they’ve always been encouraged to think outside the box and use their resources. All he did was heat up the air in his lungs and stress his alveoli a little. Anything goes right? Reiker responds, “Anything that doesn’t cause permanent harm, what were you thinking using that on an old man? You’re done for the day.” The kid whines about it.
Chai Li takes the opportunity to taunt old man Flamer a little about losing to a kid, which Flamer defends by saying what a good bender he was. Reiker comments, “Oh yeah, that kid’s dad is a great bender. Super creepy though. I forget his name.” Chai Li remembers to ask Kelsang if he knows of any super powerful airbenders. Kelsang says the only ones that come to mind are the Avatar…and Xinli. Reiker remarks that yes, that’s his name! So we now have confirmation that sweet little Ong’s father is the twisted, exiled airbender who invented the air separation technique (and, who Kelsang suspects, authored the airbending chapter of the book, which details how to use airbending for torture). Kelsang looks visibly uncofmortable and Reiker asks if he’s okay, to which he responds not to worry about it.
Bieber bender, who was listening, then jumps off to go and tattle on them to Laminar for talking bad about Xinli.
I guess there will be another awkward conversation coming up about that later, but this is where we ended the session for today.
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