#the characters are in order of players

[astillnight]

#i think that's the order of who people romanced the most for the origin characters #mine was Gale! #bg3 #Shadowheart #Karlach Cliffgate #Lae'zel #Astarion Ancunin #Gale Dekarios #Gale of Waterdeep #Wyll Ravenguard #Halsin #Minthara Lastname #The Emperor #i can't recall if there's any other romance options (do the drow twins count? 🤔) #GOTY #GOTY 2023 #Baldur's Gate 3 #please reblog i'd love to reach a wide range of players!

[spookberry]

I actually had a couple more ocs i wanted to draw in the style but it took me 3 weeks just to get this far so

#i think i have a preference for designing character to be orange grey and blue hmm #my art #my ocs #pokemon #idk i often go thru phases where i just want to sit back and overanalyze a style in order to copy it #for this in particular i also wanted to draw my ocs in the trainer poses #cuz when i play the pokemon games i turn the player character into an oc instead for funsies #alice came out the best of rhe bunch ngl #hoshi looks good too but Alice is stunning #i nailed it for her #jorgie is the worst cuz i did her first lol

[picaroroboto]

thing about Guda is that they do not have an internal monologue - therefore the player can't directly read their thoughts and feelings. Thanks to that some of the best insight we get into Guda's physical or psychological condition comes from other characters observing and reacting to them. But we also know Guda is a big liar who takes great effort to hide their true feelings from others around them, making those moments few and far between, or only from characters who are particularly insightful or times when Guda is particularly vulnerable.

But the way our perspective on Guda is so limited is what makes me go more than a little insane about moments like these, from Aphrodite's Song and the Garden of Lost Will respectively:

The implications that Guda knows how to fake their way through psychological exams, and has at times cried into their hands so that no one can see. The thing is that we've never directly seen them do either of those things, but that doesn't mean they haven't been doing them, we don't always see everything that goes on in the story, there's always some time gaps or stuff that happens off-screen.

What I'm building up to here is I've got a nagging feeling that Guda has it far worse (or has been in a bad state for far longer that we previously assumed, big Da Vinci in the song screenshot there implies they've been lying on psyche tests as far back as Part 1 or 1.5) than even the most max-level-reading-comprehension-type Guda enjoyers can tell. That maybe they've been deceiving even the audience as well, if only by lies of omission.

#fgo #fate/grand order #guda #ritsuka fujimaru #cosmos in the lostbelt #LB5 spoilers #LB6 spoilers #meta posting on my art blog #then again I'm pretty sure it's not an intentional deception like I don't think Guda's aware of the fourth wall or anything #so much as it is some really clever writing to make it so even the player doesn't know absolutely everything about the player character #until another character sheds some light onto them

[lesbiangiratina]

I LOVE PRONOUNS

#INSANE THAT MARINA IS JUST GAY AND ACHT IS JUST NONBINARY #yeah they/them agent 3 was already real but like. you could argue thats just keeping it neutral since theyre a player character #acht is just chilling. nonbinarily. #im getting dedf1shed. #the kat goes meow #splat #side order spoilers #<- sick of readmores sorry if you dont have that blacklisted.

[arins-art-alley]

actually what happens after you beat side order dlc

#if thats agent 8 as the player character PLEASE get this girl some therapy. #splatoon 3 #side order #splatoon 3 dlc #agent 8 #not pearlina for once lol #soon >:) #splatoon

[baellielurk]

pov you're seated at a dinner table and these are the other guests wdyd

#rare art post. as promised #made for chapter four of interactive tome of strahd cuz i thought hey. why not a visual novel #alright characters in order of appearance: #lady ilona darovnya #strahd von zarovich #sergei von zarovich #tatyana federovna #patrina velikovna #rahadin #no! that's not how i like to draw strahd! i just had to finish it in approx 30 minutes before the session #rahadin is specifically young here that's why he's missing some of his features #i imagine he got his fun forehead scar at a later date than this #also if anyone clocks what outfit sergei's is heavily inspired by no you didn't. unsee it now. #patrina #my beloved #i love her so much and also one of my players put it so well #patrina: queen of the universe #kasimir: wet tissue #ah one more tag #curse of strahd #strahdtober #strahdtober2023 #cos #ravenloft #my art

[taffingspy]

RS3's story problems these past few years is a great example of "boring characters cannot carry a good plotline"

#spy's talky things #a clannie is going through egwd in timeline order atm and so i am once again stuck thinking about these things #like the plot points of egwd/zamorakian civil war/fort are all fine #(barring a few character-specific plot points that suck ass + the presentation of those plot points leaving a lot to be desired) #the characters are so ungodly boring. like i just do not give a shit about any of them #and the characters we had lost a lot of development in the ending of edwd and instead became flat #there is a sincere problem if the player characters is saying ''i couldnt have done this without you all :)'' #and i watch the scene like ''who the fuck are half these people'' #great characters can carry a dogshit story but a great story cannot carry boring characters #you know... is it any wonder lorehounds who like to write essays are still on board with the lore #while those who wrote fanfic/drew fanart have fallen off #one is fact oriented and the other is character driven #i love writing a good essay in the tags <3 #add: to everyone reblogging this and adding their own tag essays please by all means keep it up <3

[archersartcorner]

Had mentioned my interests kinda being all over the place, and currently I’ve been watching D20 and having a lotta fun with it. I have some doodles I want to post, but gonna post this one separately first cus I love Sofia Lee 🥺

#my art #described #dimension 20 #the unsleeping city #sofia lee #Sofia’s definitely my fave from the unsleeping city. Ricky’s a close second but Sofia is top tier #all the player characters across the campaigns have been SO GOOD tho it’s genuinely hard to choose a favorite most of the time #but I love Sofia Lee she’s literally so good character #also yes. new fall out boy song just for my dear blorbos. excellent HWVDJSBSJA #I’m kinda trucking through d20 cus I RLY wanna catch up to neverafter before it ends. might have to just start watching it a lil early tho #(I know I can watch the campaigns in whatever order with little issue I just like to do things chronologically 😭😭) #but I’m at TUC chapter II atm!! and almost done with it I think I’m an hour into episode 16! #I adore brennan’s dming style and further adore all the players. they all work so well together and I love it so much

[palms-upturned]

Tbh as a cane user it’s a little funny to me that Harry gets shot in the leg (and potentially the shoulder) and then has to just. Continue w his Jamrock shuffle. Sounds like a wheelchair situation to me, but damn, nobody had even a spare cane for the guy? Crutches, perhaps? Couldn’t even like go out and get a particularly large stick? He reopens his wound just by taking a nap and having a nightmare, and then if u try and let him catch his breath you’ll just trigger the idle animation where Cuno makes Harry give him a piggy back ride 😩 and then you can’t even do drugs about it or Jean will bully you. How about I shoot YOU in the shoulder and the thigh and see how well YOU do even trying to MOVE without fourteen different substances in you, hm?? Anyway I think there should be a cane in the game with +2 Pain Threshold (pain management) +1 Volition (soldiering on) -2 Hand/Eye Coordination (hands full) and +1 Half Light (improvised weapon)

#disco elysium #meg talks #many thoughts head full #my hc is that harry’s health and injuries give him a reason to at least consider retiring from the rcm #me every time i think abt the ‘’good’’ endings: here’s how harry can still quit— #anyway it’s interesting how harry has like. A Hole In His Leg #and is described as having mobility issues bc of it Obviously #but it just has to be brushed over in order to continue the game #lena talks abt accessibility issues in martinaise and roy talks abt his own chronic issues from the radiation #even kim is visually impaired and deals w some shame around that bc of ableist bullying from his childhood #but the player character is dealing with some sort of brain trauma AND a weak heart AND chronic pains AND (at least) one bullet wound #and supposedly still has the stamina to run all around martinaise #u could say it would be too difficult/expensive to animate harry walking w a cane #or that it would limit how many things harry can have equipped simultaneously #but well. that’s just sort of ironic in a meta way to me #that the game touches on ableism but still considers it a hassle to put the player in the shoes of a disabled person #even tho… that’s p much what harry is

[k1rishiki]

let one of the kids Finally pressure me into opening fgo so she could look at it while i was at work today and uhm. congrats to sei shonagon for being the most popular fate character among girls grades 2-4 at [redacted] elementary school's afterschool program

#THEY MADE ME SHOW THEM EACH INDIVIDUAL CHARACTER IN MY CHALDEA #kiyohime got second place bc she was the one who wanted to see fgo to begin with's favorite. but sei v kiyo was 3:1 #(parvati and caren were also runners up bc all of them agreed that they liked them) #the girl in question is 100% convinced that her uncle's gf is an avid fgo player and at first i thought she was lying but i'm almost #convinced that she's telling the truth. she swears up and down that she recognizes ko gil bc of her uncle's gf #saberstolfo was surprisingly unpopular. likely bc i have her on 2nd ascension and they didn't like that her midriff was showing #they freaked out sm whenever anyone but Especially the guys weren't wearing a full shirt. which is. uh oh. bc. fgo. #i looked up arjuna (bc i've yet to summon him) and asked them what their thoughts on him were. as the True determinating factor #of 'do i respect their taste or not' and they liked him enough but were ultimately p apathetic towards him #like their arjuna reaction was near identical to their sanson reaction which. love the guy but he can Not compare to arjuna #(i'd also like to note that by some miracle i was able to divert their attention in order to skip over ushi and boudica bc. god no.) #romeo.txt

[pagesofkenna]

As a reminder, Wednesday the 19th we're starting our preview of Skyjoust– our sports anime inspired jousting competition series– on the Campaign feed. It will be two months of weekly episodes! As we get ready for that, let's meet some of the teams! (via twitter) The Burning Tails The Barmwhich Perrymen The Frog Princes The Jolly Ganders

I don't think the Campaign pod has been promoting Skyjoust on Tumblr yet, so I'm going to do it for them (hope thats ok lol)

y'all have no idea how hype I am about giant bird joust sports anime podcast!!! First episode previewing on the Campaign: Skyjacks podcast feed on the 19th!!

#skyjacks #skyjoust #each of those links is full team profiles about who the players are and why they Need To Win #the Burning Tails are the clear fan favorites in that two of the players are skyjacks: courier's call characters #they're the traditional sports anime protags; here for the love of the game #the barmwhich perrymen come from a small town that used to be a jousting capitol but has been GUTTED by capitalism #they have few resources and lots of attitude and they want to use that to make a name for themselves again and save their town #the Frog Princes are the reigning champions of the junior league owned by a main jousting club and a handful of wealthy sponsors #they were the favorite to win until they lost to the Jolly Ganders and barely made it into the quarter finals #and finally the Jolly Ganders are the clear heels of the show. the team name was recently bought out by a new sponsor #who completely rebuilt a team of ruthless competitors in order to bring more attention for the sponsor. and its working

[grandorderconfessions]

#i have a lot of feelings about how gudako/the female player character is treated by fgo #but in short I agree 100% #fate grand order criticism #sfw

[moontheoretist]

I finished the game. Spoilers incoming!

Karlach went with Wyll to Avernus to avoid dying. Funnily people said that Wyll needs to sacrifice his freedom to become Blade of Avernus, but my Wyll got freed from Mizora and still decided to become the Blade of Avernus, just without his Warlock powers. So I guess people were wrong. My Drow and Astarion are staying together and going on the adventure to find a way to make Astarion be able to walk in the sun again. Lae'zel went to lead her people in battle against Vlaakith as I couldn't bring myself to tell her to stay in Faerun. Gale decides to reforge the crown and gives it back to Mystra in order to be cured of his Orb and becomes the Chosen again (I hate the fact he becomes the Chosen, but I felt like leaving the Crown in the river would ensure that something bad in the future would happen with it again, so this is probably best balanced outcome for both Gale and the world). Huh I dunno what's with Shadowheart. She didn't say what's her goal now.

#bg3 #bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #astarion #astarion romance #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #lae'zel #shadowheart #karlach #wyll ravengard #blade of avernus #I wonder how the endings look for people who play in co-op #and romance 2 different companions #do they watch each other's cutscenes? #I used to have a fake co-op run in EA #I just opened game twice and faked co-op with myself #in order to play as all the characters I created at the same time #because when other players leave those characters stay #Now I lowkey regret that I didn't do it with my Drow Wizard #and didn't create Paladin as co-op character and romanced Gale #Then I would probably see different ending for Gale

[billdenbrough]

i’m not personally interested in any romantic combination of the kevin-thea-jean situation (but i do think thea makes the most sense in terms of canon endings with kevin) but i am so completely fascinated by the three of them as like. this is someone who lived through a hivemind with me. this is someone who understands what this life was. here is someone who knows ravens, knows the nest, knows the person i once was and will never fully shake. here is someone who was forged in that fire with me, even if beat with a different hammer, made into a different shape, held onto a different thing to get through. and now, here is someone i can’t look at directly, not always. or maybe i can, but i don’t recognise them completely anymore.

like. there is something so completely captivating about them as a trio of people making life after the ravens, after riko, after all their entirely different experiences of the same place, but the same core truths recognised by all of them. kevin was not at risk from riko (until he was), but he could see it in both of them. thea was not inner circle, but she understood the threat of riko and the master. jean did not have the same ability to walk out—to live long enough to graduate, to have someone to run to—but he knew them (individually and together), no matter the difference in all their circumstances.

they all made it. you know? thea clawed herself to the top in a team that made it twice as hard for her to be anything, and she made herself the best. kevin walked out in the wake of losing everything, and he’s the ultimate comeback kid of exy, the son who reclaimed his title no matter all the things done to destroy that dream. jean was told he was a thing before he was a person, and the one friend he had for free, no strings, walked into that nightmare and pulled him out. thea shows up when kevin says he’s never been skiing. jean can’t look at kevin, but he goes to the trojans in the end. and that’s the best gift kevin can give him: the team he loves, captain he admires, sunshine and ocean air and a thousand miles away from the court that tried to make jean into broken bones and blood in the shape of a backliner.

they made it! they made it. and i just. i don’t know. i just think it’s so fascinating to think about, all three of them, all the things they’ve seen and more that they haven’t, truths shared and truths hidden, and how at the end of it all, they might not be the same people they were back in the nest, but they’re never going to scrub those people from their skin. and maybe thea doesn’t want to, and maybe jean doesn’t know how to, and maybe kevin slips back into that person when he’s on the court and frustrated beyond belief. whatever. that’s part of the appeal. i want to look at all their sharp teeth, bared over each other’s necks and grazing it but not closed over it, and point at those sharp teeth. let me look. let me look

#aftg #kevin day #thea muldani #jean moreau #thea & jean is my actual favourite thea dynamic (i think kevthea is understandably more important though) #i’m just fascinated by like. jean has had so little to hold onto. him having a player he looks up to like. means so much to me lol #i do have an idea along these lines but i have to decipher how much of it is a story as opposed to like #an expulsion of my own thoughts ordered into narrative #anyway you can dislike or like any of these characters or ships obviously. it makes no difference to me #i just think it’s a waste of a dynamic to ignore the mess they could have instead of exploring it #also i know i said i don’t have strong interest in any of these dynamics romantically and i stand by that #but i’d still write them for stories i’d want to tell. if that makes sense #mostly this is me saying ‘i don’t regularly write these dynamics romantically bc they’re not my main focus’ but like. i would #post ravens trio

[agandar]

cleared a few more runs in splatoon after deciding i want to have fun and use modifiers and afterwards finally remembered to read the dev diaries. kinda going insane about what is developing to be a found family dynamic with 8 and off the hook (and acht mayhaps??)

they're just like 'yeah eight is going on tour with us. they're hanging out with us while we try to find their memories. also we gave them a name they're called eight now'

i need to see how the rest of the logs go but right now i need a break

#8 pointing at pearl and marina making out: those are my best friends!! #anyway. #really like how this game is actually letting the player characters be characters #usually games just tuck them away on a shelf but no splatoon is like it has been five years and they have friends now #agent 4 is kinda mia so far so wonder if they have plans for them later #also enjoy side order is a follow up on octo expansion i wasnt expecting that #not a direct follow up but a consequence of everything after deepsea metro #anyway sorting tags #splatoon 3 #side order spoilers

[hundchentanque]

Man who loves flow charts absolutely ecstatic that he has to make one for his tabletop rpg progression

#hundpost #Hi yes I am man #I absolutely love player progression in dark heresy second edition #A fellow party member literally made an excel sheet where you plug in all your stats in order to see #The xp costs for the talents and traits used on your character #I'm in love #tabletop rpg #dark heresy #warhammer 40k