#their chess game at the end

[gravitysoda]

refusing an impossible wish and settling for one last game of chess.

#p5 #persona 5 #shuake #akeshu #p5r #persona 5 royal #goro akechi #akechi goro #ren amamiya #akira kurusu #joker #joker persona 5 #soda art #the artbook gave me brainrot and the strength to make a COMIC. extreme rarity for me #akechi in 3rd sem having a wish to play chess with joker in a world where theyre both happy and are able to lead normal lives is just...aug #but the fact of the matter is that he can't have that without sacrificing his free will and everything he stands for #so in this scenario i thought he could ask for a small microcosm of that wish #at least he gets another game with joker - even if he wants to play many more he'll settle for just one #they still can't play together without the baggage and without akechi feeling that he's burdening ren #but at least it's something. at least akechi gets to spend a little more time with him #and akechi makes a concerted effort to push ren away in the 3rd sem to avoid attachment #so this would be a “selfish”/vulnerable request on his part since it's something he wants but is sentimental #and will only make it harder for ren to lose him in the end #ANYWAY !!! they make me crazy <3

[lightandfellowship]

[Image description: Digital KHDR fanart depicting the upperclassmen as chess pieces. At the very bottom of the image are four chess pieces representing Hoder, Heimdall, Sigrun, and Helgi. They are upside down and silhouetted in black against a white background. Above them are two rows of black and white squares forming a chess board pattern. Above that are three pedestals holding up Vali, Vidar, and Vala's chess pieces, with Vidar's piece resting on the tallest pedestal in the middle. Both the chess pieces and the pedestals are silhouetted in white against a black background. Above them is a white heart with Baldr's hand silhouetted in black inside of it. He holds the iconic Kingdom Hearts crown in-between his index finger and thumb, posed to place it on Vidar's chess piece. End image description.]

"I paved a path for him to succeed, if he had only followed it to the end."

#khdr #kingdom hearts dark road #kingdom hearts #kh baldr #kh vidar #making kh art #So to explain the concept: at the end of the game before the final battle Baldr gives a speech where he uses a chess metaphor throughout #And when talking about Vidar in the above quote it brought to mind a chess piece being moved on a set path #from one side of the board to the other. And upon reaching the end getting 'promoted' to a better piece #In the case of checkers: getting crowned as a King. In chess: a Queen or other piece. #Baldr's goal was to get Vidar to summon Kingdom Hearts. And in a way become a 'king'. #Baldr 'captures' the pieces of the upperclassmen and clears the way for Vidar (thus why the bottom pieces are silhouetted black) #Vidar's path is paved with the deaths of his friends #Vali and Vala are of course at Vidar's side but it is Vidar who Baldr is targeting with his manipulation and schemes #khdr spoilers

[astral-schools]

(manticore's) endgame

#wizard101 #wizard101 fandom #w101 #w101 fandom #novus spoilers #the old one #manticore #sal art #i hate backgrounds btw. and shading. got REAL lazy with both #anyway. ahem. toxic old man yaoi AND chess symbolism are real #ya they both have rings :] dont read into it #ummm in the 2nd to last frame hes supporting the King and keeping it from falling. and then in the last one hes doing the same #Do You Understand. my visions #pushing my 'old one sucks at chess' agenda forever #also hyea last one looks a lot like a frame from life is confusing. idc. whatever #dont ask how the old one ended up in that position btw i wasnt thinking about the logistics of play #hes just REALLY bad at this game #this is supporsed to be romantic btw. of dubious sincerity but romantic nonetheless #chess is like gay sex. if you think about it #youre trying to 'mate' another man 🤨 interesting

[akaashism]

one personal kageyama hc i have is that i think he's great at chess. like the analytical thinking, pattern recognition, and skill for strategizing you need for it? yeah he's killing it ‼️

#im gonna incorporate this in a fic one day #maybe kazuyo taught him chess on a day it was raining and he was miserable bc he couldn't play volleyball #tsukishima and kageyama play a game of chess one day and everyone is beyond shocked when kageyama ends up winning #kageyama tobio #sim talks hq #haikyuu!!

[childrenofthesun77]

Assuming that the whole 'mahiru is the vessel needed to bring back the count and the 9th servamp will be the servamp of vainglory' theory will be correct, it's interesting how both mahiru and touma can be accused of this sin even if the way it applies to them is opposed.

What touma wants is to be acknowledged and to that end he was willing to become the villain who destroyed the world before mahiru and tsurugi managed to change his mind:

Mahiru's way of being vainglorious seems a lot more positive at first because he wants to be a hero who saves others, but it's self-destructive and encourages laziness in others:

But thankfully we see mahiru starting to let go of the need to make other people proud of him and to prioritize making himself proud in his conversation with tsurugi:

and later when mahiru has a meltdown because he fears his uncle might be dead and suggests sacrificing his life to save the world kuro rightfully yells at mahiru for acting hypocritical and not listening to his own advice:

(I want to mention here that I really love how horrified kuro looks as he realizes that mahiru's reckless hero behaviour comes from a very self-destructing place:

because not a lot of manga I know really acknowledge that maybe the way a lot of their protagonists try to be heroic is actually pretty unhealthy and shouldn't be encouraged? Like Sigurd pointed out at the C3 meeting, it's kind of shameful that the children have to save the day)

Which is why I love that mahiru decided to trust kuro to handle tsubaki without him going with him:

He decides to stay back with everyone else, showing that he has learned that he doesn't need to be the one to do everything and can stay back with the others to buy kuro time.

Interestingly we see touma doing something similar. Opposed to his old need to have the whole world acknowledge him he now wishes for everyone to believe he's dead and he's helping to protect the city by creating a huge barrier without making it known that's he the one doing this:

He's helping the protagonists seemingly with no intention of earning acknowledgement for it.

I think in a way it could be cool of servamp to subvert the shouned trope that for the finale battle the only one able to defeat the big bad is the protagonist while everyone else just watches on from the sidelines, not allowed to do anything because this is the protagonist's moment of glory.

What if lily's plan when he put kuro in mahiru's path was that if kuro tried to stop tsubaki at the gate surely his eve would need to be there with him, right? Because of course he needs his eve to fight and then there's also the distance limit. So why not make the vessel you need at that gate for the ritual to work kuro's eve? Then the vessel would be at the place where you need them without you even needing to do something because naturally they would be thinking they are doing the right thing by going with kuro to fight tsubaki together. And surely someone as vainglorious as mahiru would never pass up the opportunity to be the hero who stops tsubaki. It's foolproof!

Unless of course before the ritual the vessel learned to let go of their vainglorious nature, accepted that it's okay to take a step into the background and trust in others. And additionally also found a way to break through the whole forced proximity thing that the servamp and eves had going on.

I don't know, I feel like it would be a neat bow on mahiru's character arc and a unique way to thawrt the antagonists' plans if the creation of the servamp of vainglory failed because the 'it has to be me' guy they wanted to use as the vessel decided against glory and stayed back to let his partner handle things with tsubaki alone because he trusts him. Kuro on the other hand wants to make up for his past regrets and resolve the conflict through communication this time. Learning to trust in himself again by managing to talk tsubaki out of going through with the ritual on his own would be a logical conclusion to kuro's arc.

#servamp #mahiru shirota #taishi touma #This started as a short post about both touma and mahiru being vainglorious just with one wanting to be villain who destroys the world #While the one wants to be the hero who saves the world #because they both want to be acknowledged #And then it escalated into a post about how the two of them letting go of their vainglory might end up saving the day in the end #As for lily and mikuni I feel like that needs to be resolved by misono #He has to deal with lily to get out of the chess game and tell the others about what he has learned or to confront his brother #Mahiru doesn't really have a deep connection to lily or mikuni #He barely knows them and they see him as a pawn #The one who needs them to understand that he's not a child in need of protection to the point that all they did was lie to him is misono #Lily destroyed mikuni's and his kiriko's lives as well maybe misono can work with that? #Or maybe mikuni is playing 5d chess anyway and all he does serves his end goal to get revenge on lily by making sure his plan fails idk #It is weird that his best known spell has people get hanged if they killed other humans in their life #And now he wants to kill the people of tokyo for power? That doesn't make much sense doesn't it.

[anteomnia]

reid being treated like the baby of the bau in season 1 is so funny to me, he’s supposed to be the smartest mfer there but they act like he can’t even figure out how to “think outside the box”

#could turn this into an autism thing #because all autistic coded characters are treated like this #the only one i accept is him struggling to shoot a gun #but even then #mfer did a headshot by the end of the episode #idk man #i got complaints #but i also find it so fuckin funny #man can read a book and recite it within the hour #but can’t win a game of chess against gideon? #get him a chess book #criminal minds #spencer reid #jason gideon #criminal minds s1 #autism #autistic

[taikanyohou]

“You really ... you really have very little understanding of Zhao Jing. Did you know, that all his life, he’s been the most proud of his ability to fool everyone around him?” WORD OF HONOR (2021). Episode 32.

#word of honor #wohedit #wohdaily #asiandramasource #cdramasource #cdramaedit #cdramanet #xie wang #* #faiza gifs #oh babe ............ how does it feel huh ............................... #to know that all along all this time you ended up meaning NOTHING! #just another piece in his game of chess. #sigh ... that LOOK he gives him in gifs 3 and 4 ............ yeah.

[mrs-gauche]

"I regret acting alone!", yelled Sutherland. Regret turned to face the young warrior, its many eyes shifting around its head, centering on him. The one it couldn't touch. It could kill them all in turn, but this new sensation was so tempting, and so familiar. It was as if Sutherland was echoing the regret that had drawn it to Skyhold in the first place. "I regret using my friends!"

#dragon age #solas #dai gifs #part 4 of the never ending gif set series of ''Solas is a very very very lonely man'' #you ever think about Solas playing Diamondback with Blackwall.. #..or Sera putting lizards in his bedroll and him getting back at her.. #..or Solas nerding out over magic with Dorian.. #..or him and Viv tattle about ''the Game'' and nobles' machinations.. #..or Solas and Iron Bull playing mind chess.. #..or his genuine admiration for Cassandra's strength and faith.. #..or Solas asking Varric about things in his books.. #..or how big of a deal it is for him to call you a friend at the end of it all.. #...........because I do sometimes and then I get sad #tevinter nights #tevinter nights spoilers #that chapter made me sob #my gifs

[feelingthedisaster]

my roman empire? aftg ending with riko's death

#i could go on for hours #riko is king and just like a chess game ends with the king's death #all for the game ends with the king's death #nora sakavic you genius #aftg #all for the game #riko moriyama #nora sakavic

[diwns]

impress with ultimate chess prowess 🔓

#ts4 #ts4 gameplay #ts4 legacy #s: kian #'21 #nː #the sims #simblr #smart man equals sexy man 😎 #kian got pulled into the closet: teehee 👉👈 #ended the chess game with a hard period and not an exclamation point = exert dominance #years of playing chess with his dad and sister paid off :'))))) #s: divya #discover university #cier save

[pochapal]

"the endgame had never been finished" meaning......kinzo died before he could put this plan of his into motion?

#umineko liveblog #kinzo acted hastily and failed to 'win' over nanjo in the end #meaning that the Something was neither exposed or buried before he died #the 'rushed' part is giving me pause because what could kinzo have rushed? #unless of course he didn't plan on the 1986 family conference being the day he spun the demon's roulette #but then given Everything we need to read all post-prologue kinzo scenes as dubiously authentic #which. actually. this is all leading to a very worrying conclusion specifically about kinzo's role in the epitaph ritual #no tvs in the study........his chess game unfinished.....surely this doesn't actually mean what i think it's implying #because why else would these killings even happen and be involved with the epitaph succession riddle if not for kinzo #like this is obviously his machination but. the metaphors are doing a good job of distancing him #unless this is another way to clue in on the 'dead all along' thing which still hasn't been Actually Confirmed True #ie kinzo had other plans but died before he could amend them so genji is acting out the Kill Everyone part of his will instead #but that leaves the question of what kinzo's unfinished plan is and what the 'rushing' actually means. a lot to consider here........

[ofekma]

"how can you be an animorphs fan and support Israel?"

I don't know, how CAN I be the fan of a book series talking about kids being forced to grow up too fast due to being a part of a war that has been going on for longer than they're alive, trying to defend their home against an invading force?

Seeing how this situation affects their mental state, world view and relationships with each other? Not being able to fully trust anyone else because they can turn out to secretly wish for your demise?

How can I be the fan of a series that mirrors the way I grew up, of feeling scared and lost and small but knowing that you have to keep going because there's no other way?

Knowing that the other side has people who are like you, who never really wanted to hurt anyone but are being forced to fight too, who were brainwashed from birth to not see people like you as people?

Knowing that innocents die in war, that cruel, messed up, unjust things happen in wars but not seeing another way forward?

Wanting to save your loved ones who are now being kept hostages?

YEAH I HAVE NO IDEA WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD I, AN ISRAELI PERSON, BE AN ANIMORPHS FAN?

#animorphs: there's no black and white but sometimes you have to fight to protect the people you love #people on tumblr: ISRAEL BAD PALESTINE GOOD #Hey remember how every time the animorphs kill a hork bajir controller #they kill both an innocent hork bajir hostage and a yeerk that is threatened with starvation by their superiors if they won't fight? #remember how most taxxons only agreed to collaborate with the yeerks because they feel like being puppets is better than constant hunger? #remember how Serrow only wanted to do something good but ended up causing an intergalactic war? #remember how as early as book 6 Jake didn't blink before boiling alive dozens of helpless yeerks? #remember how the Howelrs who exterminated countless species were merely toddlers playing controlled by a higher being? #REMEMBER HOW ANIMORPHS IS A FUCKING COMPLICATED BOOK SERIES AND EVEN OUR HEROES COMMITED ATROCITIES THAT HAUNTED THEM EVERY DAY? #AND HOW WE STILL ROOTED FOR THEM BECAUSE WE KNEW WHY THEY DID THIS AND WHERE THEY'RE COMING FROM? #HOW MOST OF THEIR ATROCITIES WEREN'T JUST KILLING FOR THE SAKE OF KILLING? #Unlike you know #what Hamas is doing #killing for the sake of killing #sacrificing their own people in the process #brainwashing and treathening their population #Remember how the war is actually a chess game between two larger entities that use everyone else as a peon for the war between themselves? #Hm now that surely sounds familiar #Imagine thinking that a fictional war in a book series for kids is more complicated and morally grey than one in real life #And that you can know everything about it from Twitter and tik tock #Couldn't be me lol

[lunarrolls]

whenever i need a laugh or a smile i go back and watch the early bells hells episodes. like pre-bassuras was such an insane vibe for an adventuring party and the shit they got into? unparalleled. truly just a collection of guys doing shit and sometimes experiencing consequences. and then bassuras came down on them like the fucking sword of damocles. i hope that one day, when this is all over, bells hells will still travel, doing dumb shit and fucking around like they once did for lord ariks eshteross. i hope they find that peace once their questions are answered, but i don’t know if a quiet life is for them. i think they’d just continue on, continue to scheme, do incredibly chaotic shit for forever. just let them throw parties, root out government corruption and little shade creepers every once in a while, and pretend to be ghosts, that’s the proper bells hells post-campaign enrichment plan

#cr #cr3 #the idea of a level 20 party just doing dumb shit forever rather than accepting places of power in the world is so funny to me #and SO hells. the level 20 cleric is just a fuckin robot who meets up with his gun robot partner and they eat muffins together #and also the level 20 cleric’s best friend level 20 barbarian continues to get into bar fights for some fucking reason #and then their level 20 fighter friend has to go bail him out but also ends up getting drunk but in a fun way #meanwhile this werewolf blood hunter and incredibly terrifying fire druid lady have been cleaning out a local casino #and there have been rumors of a terrifying flower girl haunting the poker floor #a level 20 sorcerer and a level 20 bard have a nice little game of chess together #and all is right in the universe #so in conclusion fuck you ludinus da’leth you’re in the WAY of my HORRIBLE GREMLIN FUTURE

[existencebringsonlypain]

alright, so if we do end up fighting Kris in the last chapter of Deltarune, we will most certainly win. For we are the player, and we have the power of saving and loading. Debatably, Kris has this too, but either way the end result is the same- This will be a fight of iteration and endurance.

I hypothesize that this fight will have two (or three, depending on how you look at it) endings: You persist, or you relent. Persistence would likely look like a LOT of grinding, figuring out which actions in what order will allow you to "win" and take control back over Kris. And relenting, or perhaps convincing them to relent, would look like A: fleeing or mercy, or B: the same thing as persistence, but choosing to pursue mercy. The third option would be death, and subsequently giving up.

Now, we must remember that Deltarune is a 2018 video game developed by American indie developer Toby Fox. Deltarune oriciy came from Toby's fever dream portraying the ending of a video game. So there's every chance that rather than having the option to either fight to achieve mercy or simply give up and die, you can only die. That IS the only way to free the game from the player. Any other way, and you'd still be in control.

This option also would align with Toby's "there is only one ending"- The ending is persistence, and taking over Kris again. The other "endings" are just death.

This alone makes me inclined to believe that that's exactly how it's gonna go. The only thing that makes me doubt this is how Deltarune is a commercial venture, and that's a pretty unsatisfying "ending". But I could absolutely see Toby doing it anyway.

For we are the player. And if we fight for it, we WILL win. But winning means making Kris suffer, and the only way to avoid that is to no longer fight.

#this also works with chess theory #if we go down the line to Pawn #which is likely to affect Kris a lot‚ since they are. also a pawn #then that could get them the willpower to resist our command for long enough to initiate a battle (presumably with the others on their side) #i initially wasnt too on board with chess theory since i really do think in the last chapter‚ we will fight kris #and kris IS a pawn‚ so you'd have to have two chapters with the same piece to end with pawn #the alternate way for this to work is you fight them in chapter 6‚ you can reach a compromise‚ #and then you all team up to fight‚ like‚ Gaster. or Toby. the real masterminds of this game- the creators #but that's REEEEALLY meta and while I don't doubt Toby would DO it #i don't think that's something he would have dreamed up in 2013 #especially with all the context #so. not too on board with that #QUICK GUYS INVEST IN THIS POST BEFORE IT TURNS OUT THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS #OR THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT HAPPENS #nutdealer posting #deltarune #utdr #deltarune theory #deltarune analysis #sort of #theory #theorycrafting #that's just an inference #A GAME INFERENCE #or i suppose it IS a theory #this is what the recent matpat deltarune theory would be if he had the BALLS to go further with it #i mean. he does agree that we'll fight kris at the end. so #i dont remember much of the video‚ most of it was simply proving kris was sentient independent of us. which like. yea. we know #so i guess #that's just a theory

[thegeminisage]

sometimes chess is about chasing the other guy's little horsey all over the board

#personal #CHESS BLOGGING #gaming clips tag #liz & cathy's gaming tag #i kept trying to tell her to move a different guy and she kept saying she couldn't bc i wouldn't stop chasing her #accidentally losing my queen bc i was laughing too hard to focus is maybe the perfect ending #24h later this game is still going

[childrenofthesun77]

Reading spoilers for servamp chapter 140 from japanese fans on twitter and

Apparently otogiri is johannes' sister? Wild. Guess it makes sense though, they both have the same hair color. Wasn't the guy who negotiated with kuro when C3 kidnapped them his cousin too? Or did I just imagine that. Servamp really is just one huge family conflict, isn't it. Even the servamps and C3 can be seen as being related because they are two different kinds of descendants of the count.

Otogiri's human name might have been gretel? Johannes character is based on heinrich/johann faust(us), a scientist who made a deal with the devil and eventually gets a young woman named gretchen pregnant. The name johann is similar to the name hansel and gretel and gretchen are also similar, so I guess the two are linked to both the fairytale hansel and gretel and to faust by johann wolfgang von goethe.

Apparently we get more about higan's and berukias backstories too.

Also for a reason I don't quite understand yet the 13 places that mikuni's clones are at seem to be the same 13 places that were bombed by tsubaki early on in the story that all had ties to C3, which explains why the clone sakuya met was staying at mahiru's bombed school and I guess that also makes it easier to locate all the clones. Not sure if misono is talking to a clone or the real mikuni, but apparently they get into another chess game with misono playing white and mikuni playing black. After winning against his father and outwitting lily to end the game misono will have to prove that he finally has what it takes to win against his genius older brother in chess too.

#servamp #it makes sense that it would end with a game of chess between them #but my first thought when reading that was “wait another chess game #misono already spent the last few chapters stuck in one" #will he even get to meet up with the others and tell them all he has learned from lily before this manga ends? #I think we haven't seen misono and mahiru talk on-page since chapter 49 when jun arranged for them to meet #Sometimes it's hard to keep in mind that the characters all have different levels of information #Yumi only informed them that lily betrayed them #They also only know that tsurugi can't fight but yumi didn't tell them what happened