#theorycraft

[qcellza]

I firmly believe that the song Fit used is relevant not just by the title

#qsmp #qsmp spoilers #qsmp fitmc #theorycraft #cursed texts

[skungie]

something that i find kind of endlessly fun to think about is that like. dys is literally the token cissie of his friend group and of the people he spends his time around in general. tangent, utopia, sol, nomi-nomi— all definitively Not Cis. even sym is just like, Guy-shaped™ at best. congruence also is just sort of girl-shaped to me

of course, then you get into discussions about, like, well... dys clearly has his own brand of Issues going on, and i think it makes sense that he would surround himself (inadvertently or not) with people who have grappled with their sense of self, and by extension their place in the world, in one way or another.

even if dys is lost in his own little esoteric world, and under the assumption that no one could ever truly understand him— something that may or may not be true depending on your personal interpretation of the game— he is surrounded by people who have felt things like he’s felt.

#ramblings #theorycraft #to be honest i think 'tang and dys as alterhuman' is something that deserves its own post at some point #when i have the energy to dig into it a little more #but right now i am very tired #bugtalks

[the19thduckpotato]

so ahowerthought about AfO v All Might final fight (pre 390 speculation)

AfO's using a version of Eri's Quirk right now, yeah? What if he realizes he's on a ticking clock n forces the Rewind Quirk on All Might? Maybe hoping to stop the clock on himself as it were n try to reverse All Might out of existence

and for whatever reason, it works just long enough to Rewind Toshinori right before he was so terribly injured. on the one hand, kinda cheap thematically to take away his scar. but on the other, maybe a "reward" for all that he's ever done as the Symbol of Peace?

plus, I'd just love to see a plan of AfO's backfire on him so amazingly well

#spoilers #theorycraft #mha spoilers #bnha spoilers #my hero academia spoilers #boku no hero academia spoilers

[twilighthiro]

an attempted theorycraft for @reine-does-things’s harpy warriors.

“Link, the Hero of Hyrule, has been cursed into a humanoid bird monster by Cia and her obsession. Even so, he continues to fight on the front lines, both on the ground and in the sky.”

“As a Harpy, Link has two normal attack strings; one on the ground, and one in the air.” 

“He switches between these two states with his unique action: his wings appear in a flash of light magic as he bends down on one knee, and he rises to the sky in a blur, doing a quick forward roll before hovering midair.”

“This movement is quick and simple except for a short moment when the wings appear, but overall a good getaway button if you have no special ready or just want to rain death upon land-locked foes. Likewise, in getting down, his wings fade into a flash of light and Link drops to the ground, giving you a small window to fit in a heavy or normal aerial attack before landing on the ground.”

“In the skies Link switches from whatever weapon you had equipped to his Magic Rod, this time with an enhanced and improved range of attacks.”

“He will blast the ground in front of him with a single magic bolt, blast the areas right and left of him with two bolts, send three magic bolts in a fan formation that travel a short distance along the ground before exploding massively, spin his rod to create a large ring of fire and throwing it to the ground, and transforming the rod into a giant battleaxe and carving a large horizontal swing.”

“Compared to the base magic rod this is massively improved and tuned into crowd coverage, with his first normal attack for single target and weak point damage, and each bolt of magic being very large.”

“His base heavy attack has him building up a massive ball of fire as he spins around, and launching it a short ways in front of him, where it transforms into a fire tornado and sucks up trash enemies and damages everything in range-usually in a keep-shaped square. While the fireball does amazing crowd coverage and decent single target damage, this attack’s windup is really quite slow. The purpose of this slow windup is to interact with his unique action: Link drops into a dive to the ground, wreathing himself in flames as he crashes headlong into a target, dealing truly absurd amounts of damage to a single target.”

“This is your go-to attack if you're in the air when a weak point gauge pops up, as you might not have time to land and attack before the gauge disappears.”

“His second strong attack has him summoning a horizontal column of fire and throwing it to the ground, where it explodes. Relatively quick and nice for activating bomb flowers, but that’s it.”

“Link’s third and final aerial strong attack has him spinning in a circle, burning the ground below him, and then crashing to the ground as his weapon transforms into a battleaxe and spinning forward for a short time. Quick, nice for clearing out crowds if a bit long, and landing if you want to land but not stop your damage-dealing.”

“Just a quick note: while in the air, Link’s forward speed is truly ridiculous, while his right and left movement suffers, plus taking additional damage from attacks. Choose wisely your movement while fighting airborne foes like Agorok.”

“On the ground Link uses whatever weapon you picked, and there is no difference except that you can jump for the skies at any time.”

“And now for the additional complications: after capturing a keep, Link gains a buff that remains for around thirty seconds. During that time Link can be ordered to any captured keep and he will basically teleport there; making this useful should you have keeps under attack and no warriors nearby. This buff renews after clearing the keep of monsters, meaning Link can jump all over the map and single handedly rescue any keep under attack.”

“On exactly two story maps, an extra event is squished into them: if a very specific ally is about to flee, Link enters a Frenzy state, forgoing his weapon in favor of his claws and refusing to remain in the air. This state remains until the ally is brought to an allied keep, acting as either a hindrance or a help.”

“Link only has normal attacks in this state, and they mimic the normal attack string of his Hylian Sword; he will jab forward, slash right, left, spin attack, jab twice, slash right and left again, and finish off by slashing with both hands in an X. Each and every attack comes out ridiculously fast-fast enough that it can be hard to tell sometimes if an attack is it’s own button press or not, and each slash is wide enough to deal handily with crowds along with single targets. Link himself moves very fast throughout, meaning that he can get in around four attacks before the enemy starts guarding, and simply slide behind them to continue completely destroying them and then moving on.”

“That’s it, besides the dark elemental damage that Link’s claws do on every strike.”

“Overall, a somewhat complicated playstyle with excellent crowd control, although it relies on what weapon you have equipped on the ground to truly be able to deal with anything.”

#Theorycraft #original hyrule warriors #link #warriors has wings and it's all cia's fault #lu warriors

[antelove19]

#FNAF #SecurityBreach #fivenightsatfreddys #FNAFTheory #FNAFReaction #Fuhnaff #Theorycraft #Reaction #GTLive #MatPat #GameTheory

[sleepy-little-latte]

There are some awesome team-based competitive games either upcoming or out already so here are 3 I've been excited for:

FANGS:

Developed by HiddenLeaf games, entered public Early Access for free earlier this week so currently playable on Steam and Epic Games Store. Includes bunny woman voiced by Shannon Williams (Jett's VA from VALORANT). 2 teams of 4 fight to either push an objective/payload into the other team's base or kill the other team's captain to win a round. First to win 3 rounds wins the match.

Loki: 

Developed by Theorycraft games, currently in NDA playtesting that you can sign up to join. Not much publicly known.

Evercore Heroes: 

Developed by Vela Games, currently in NDA playtesting. Competitive PvE where 4 teams of 4 fight in a race against time and each other to complete objectives and ultimately defeat a map's boss. First to kill the boss OR last team left standing wins. Not much else I can confirm because of the NDA so this info is from their website and social media handles.

#FANGS #evercore #evercore heroes #loki #theorycraft #vela games #hiddenleaf #Moba #early access #video games

[theminecraftbee]

also in our season of INCREDIBLY STABLE ALLIANCES, i think three people to keep an eye on are our loners:

scar, who is the main guy that tasks have successfully driven away from everyone. he's stuck in the role of the villain, resents it, and i don't think can escape it at this point.

martyn, the widow, the first red, angry at the world but constantly sidelined even by the other reds, alone not by choice but because his allies were taken from him.

and bigb, who HAS an alliance, who IS one of the heart foundation, but treats it like a part-time job, refusing to fully become trustworthy or fully give his loyalty to anyone, holding himself apart almost as though by habit of hiding things from everyone.

in this season where EVERYONE ELSE is in an alliance that has been stable since like, session two, these three are the ones with the fewest ties. and i'm curious if, as a result, they're the ones who end up shaping whatever happens next. nothing is more frightening than a person who has nothing left to lose.

#secret life smp #secret life spoilers #martyn inthelittlewood #goodtimeswithscar #bigbst4tz2 #i am just in theorycrafting mode don't mind me

[hydropyro]

Raphael Theory

Raphael is not a just cambion.

Evidence –

First evidence is his ability to create contracts. We can see from the in game cambion, Mizora, who works on behalf of Zariel, that she herself is not capable of granting power or creating contracts. In order to amend her contract with Wyll she requires witnesses.

With Raphael we see regular independent contract making. From his contract with the Infernal Mason: which causes Raphael to lead an army against the Goddess of Loss, to his contract to Yurgir, a powerful baatezu (Devils, natural inhabitants of Baator) in his own right, Raphael answers to, seemingly, no one, and exerts as much power as he likes, when he likes.

Continuing with his contract with the Infernal Mason, first we see a “cambion”, which tend to fall quite low on the hierarchy tree of baatezu, *having*, *controlling*, and *mobilising* an army of fiends onto the mortal plane to contradict a goddess’s will. He addresses Yurgir as ‘commander’ before the fight in the House of Hope, indicating that Yurgir has significant status among the Baatezu. Orthons are commonly used as personal guards, bounty-hunters, and generals for Pit Fiends, Infernal Dukes/Duchesses, and Arch Devils.

In the fight with Raphael in the House of Hope we also see Raphael command a personal army of fiends which he’s able to summon to himself from elsewhere in the Hells.

Final evidence, Raphael’s Ascended form. While it’s something we haven’t seen elsewhere in the game, his form does actually align with a Pit Fiend: and a powerful one. In baatezu hierarchy the devil’s *form* changes based on their rank. They are ‘purified’ in the fires and emerge a more powerful self, with an accompanying form.

Raphael’s Ascended form best matches a Pit Fiend, the second highest rank in the hierarchy.

I posit that Raphael is an Infernal Duke. Not only that, but he is powerful enough in himself not to need to serve a specific Arch Devil. (((When meeting Haarlep he says he sometimes takes the shape of Archduchess Raphael. This is not confirmation of my theory, rather it is a testament to his ego and ambitions, as he is in no way an ARCHduke — yet)))

If I’m correct, this *most likely* explains why Mephistopheles would send Haarlep to distract, and potentially spy on, Raphael. The only rank above Infernal Duke is Arch Devil. Raphael, then, is a genuine threat to the current ruling of the Hells: Mephistopheles included.

If Raphael was born a cambion eons past, which we have no reason to believe otherwise, he has torn upward through the infernal ranks. This is not only difficult, but would be incredibly painful for Raphael himself, as each evolution would require his previous form be burned away and purified by the fires.

Raphael revels in subverting expectations, and likely enjoys being underestimated. He masquerades as a cambion because they are nobodies on the infernal plane — but he is far from nobody.

I believe that Raphael chose Avernus for his House of Hope because Zariel isn’t able to kick him out, nor is she able to subjugate him. While in Avernus Raphael has the freedom and power to do what he wants, when he wants.

A cambion wanting the Crown of Karsus to achieve godhood is laughable. But an Infernal Duke, son of Mephistopheles, wanting the Crown to achieve godhood is *possible* and *terrifying* for all of the baatezu.

I haven’t found any answers regarding this final thought: but I don’t think we’ve seen the last of Raphael, whether we killed him or not. His story shows that he is crafty, has backup plans for his backup plans, and has ambitions that can feasibly topple the hells.

Raphael *was* a cambion. He is *now* an Infernal Duke, and the only ‘rank’ above him is Archduke (that — and God)

#baldur’s gate 3 #baldurs gate 3 #haarlep #raphael #theorycrafting #theory

[pinacoladamatata]

Can't believe we got Astarion standing outside cazador's house like the sickos meme. Just basking in the sunlight. Like what are they gonna do? Open the door?

Cazador:

Once this sun goes down it's over for you motherfuckers!!

#bg3 #baldur’s gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #also i think it would be cool if entering the city w astarion in your party starts like a countdown timer unknown to the player #and the longer you're there the higher chance cazadors lackeys have of finding you and starting a random fight encounter #kindof like the vampires in skyrim dawnguard dlc. just so that its like. damn these are a problem. lets kill the source. #i think the main quest will probably have us interacting w cazzy anyway. regardless of if u have Astarion as a follower #yall im basically stuck waiting for my surgery this week. come theorycraft w me....... #👀👀 #also this crypt....looks weirdly how i imagined it in my mind. like right down to the roof tiles #astarion

[cloverisnonexistantbro]

Details In Luis Serra’s Character Design:

I have been wanting to do this post for a little while, but I finally got the push I needed when @theprestigegirly helped me solve a few little mysteries hidden in the character design itself that I was trying to solve. I am by no means saying no one has stated this before, just that this is the first we’ve noticed it.

WARNING: LONG-ASS POST

• 1) The Red-9:

The Red 9 is an interesting choice of gun to give Luis. The photo of Luis and his grandfather was taken when he was about 5, meaning that Luis would have been born sometime around 1976. The Red 9 was built around 1896, almost a full century before Luis would have been born. No one else from Valdelobos seems to really have guns, as the town is so backward. So how did he get this collectors gun? Well, Luis’s grandfather was a hunter. It could be very likely that he inherited the gun from his grandfather after he died.

•2) Jacket Patterns:

With the help of @theprestigegirly, I actually think we might have found some interesting details. There seem to be mysterious circle-shapes on his jacket and came up with two possibilities:

They are wheels, specifically windmill wheels, representing Don Quixote.

They are a flower called a Pink Peony. Now that’s an interesting choice of flower simply because of what it represents.

Considering the many very obvious verbal “appreciation” Luis makes of Leon, this could be interpreted as a reference to Luis’ “Ladykiller” persona, and his homoerotic relationship with Leon throughout the game.

The flower also represents honor, which ties into the whole Don Quixote parallels.

• 3) Names On The Lighter:

We never really get a close look at Luis’ lighter in-game, and most people know it came from Umbrella, but me and @theprestigegirly decided it was time to try and interpret the actual names on the lighter, because it can be assumed that those are the names of his fellow scientists.

The names, as we interpreted them, went as follows:

• Hansel Hernandez

• Orivia Smith

• Jean-Jacques Clouet

• Maria Igesias

• Alfred Snider

• Maximilian Wegener

• Frances Alcher

• Charles Lee

Personally, I find it very fitting and symbolic that he carries the names of his lab colleagues around both physically and mentally. He seems to be quite the sentimental fellow (but we all knew that already)

Alright! That’s it! I just felt like analyzing some parts of the character that I felt weren’t touched on enough, and with the help of @theprestigegirly, I think I have a pretty decent theory analysis for you all today. Thanks for sticking through the long ass post, and special thanks to @theprestigegirly for helping me with this and literally staying up to 1 in the blessed am to humor my shenanigans!

#resident evil 4 remake #luis serra #luis serra navarro #re #re4r #resident evil #serrenedy #re4r leon #leon kennedy #resident evil 4 #theorycrafting clover

[aimzicr]

I always associated the Three Ladies of Castle Dracula in my mind as ‘Brides of Dracula’ because pop-culture osmosis and/or adults around me specifically referencing Hammer Films, even if that isn’t accurate to the text. 

Still, with Dracula being a representation of inversions of the ‘natural order’, we have here a ‘til death do us part’ in which he’s Still Single but he hasn’t let go of his other possessions. He’s a warlord, boyar, master of all, and they’re part of what he owns. He doesn’t just treat employees and guests as property to do with as he wishes, but also the women he apparently once loved. Love and possession are apparently the same thing to him. Messed up.

Given the descriptions of the women, two of them seem to be at least locals, or of the same cultural background as Dracula himself (he did go into great excited detail about his history and his empire before, and the strength of his people, so it wouldn’t be that odd for him to be wife-shopping in the European region he conquered). 

On the other hand, we have a woman described in a more Victorian style of beauty, and Johnathan has a ‘dreamy fear’ that he kind of recognises this third woman, the blonde woman. What if he does recognise her, from posters from music halls or theatres that he would have seen as a child? What if this third bride is a famous Englishwoman? An actress or performer who went missing on some tour decades ago? Hence the odd recognition he can’t place - she was a celebrity, and her pictures were around, but a young Johnathan would have no association with her because she was just before his time.

But Dracula had to get the idea to take over London (and then England) from somewhere. What if his new foreign bride wouldn’t stop talking about The Empire Where The Sun Never Sets, and possessive, obsessive Dracula went ‘I want that, too’?

Also, when the women come across Johnathan sleeping, the agreement of who to kiss him first is very quick. ‘Yours is the right’. What if she gets first dibs not because she’s Dracula’s current favourite or best or strongest wife/consort, but because Johnathan is her fellow Englishman? That she misses home so much, and her homesickness has been tainted by her vampirism that she just needs a little taste of home, no matter what that means? And her ‘sisters’ recognise that, and give her the right to kiss first, before they drain him dry?

#dracula daily #re: dracula #theorycrafting #brides of dracula #yes I've read other theories dw #theories for everyone

[necronatural]

Someone did an EGO analysis of Heathcliff so in anticipation for Don here's mine

(Unrelated: Couldn't help but notice Gregor's EGOs besides AEDD are about his arm being part of a tree (even the base ego, which has the kabbalah-referencing symbols of the library tree floors). That dude for sure has a branch of light cutting in his arm.)

#limbus company #theorycrafting

[falleri-salvatore]

Jessica Cruz is a palette swapped fusion of Ruby and Pyrrha and I can prove it.

For starters, her NAME references Ruby and Pyrrha in some way. Jessica is a traditionally feminine name with Hebrew roots meaning "riches" or "wealth" which brings to mind gold and silver. Cruz means "cross" in Spanish and Portuguese, either the Christian cross or the figure of transecting lines or ways, which brings to mind brown and silver. Gold represents Pyrrha (well; both Pyrite Gold/Fool's Gold and Copper Gold/Chalcopyrite/Orichalcum) and Silver represents Ruby (Silver Eyes. Hell even the cross imagery references Ruby) In other words: Jessica Cruz's main color theme is Electrum, an alloy that is made of Gold and Silver, and is also known as Green Gold as well as White Gold. Now look at her clothing/color scheme.

PS: Is it any wonder then, that she ended up having such incredible chemistry with Jaune from the word Go?

#rwby #rwby shitpost #jessica cruz #rwby headcanon #rwby theorycrafting

[elementroar]

I thought the reason ABA wants Paracelsus to be human is because she’s based their whole relationship on what she’s learned through osmosis about romance and humanity? So like, she wants to be husband and wife specifically because of societal expectations, and wants him to be human to fit into that image even more?

I would say she did base her ideas on how to 'act human' from prolly books and things around Frasco in her 10 year isolation. We dunno what books she was reading in Frasco, other than apparently a lot of books containing idioms and things that she never quite remembers right (this is based on her random quotes back in XX/ACCENT CORE). She was also obsessed with laws, so I think that's how she view society really - through the words of law dictating behavior. And that included the idea of men and women, married couples etc. etc.

Her GG World Xrd entry implies she immediately fell in love with Paracelsus, decided they were married, and the natural next step in her reasoning is that he needs to have an artificial body like her to as you say, fit the image/idea of what they should be in her head.

Honestly, I think Daisuke kinda wants to move away from this being her sole focus for years in STRIVE, hence why no one brings it up during the conversations between all characters in any route in the arcade mode, other than when ABA falls back to that plan and drags a protesting Paracelsus away off-screen.

I think it's kinda resolved in her conversation with Elphelt, where she admits she understands what 'love' means academically, but she doesn't know what it really means to be in love. So it kinda applies to her singleminded plan to put Paracelsus into a human body? Like the 'why' of it is not even clear to her, and her getting better is her finally let go of that obsessive plan.

Also since Paracelsus is revealed to be able to shapeshift into whatever she wants, or what he wants for that matter, that means there's a natural way Paracelsus can get a human body now. With consent from both parties. I personally think that may actually be where the story is headed, plus if Para learns to shift between any form he wants, then ArcSys won't have to worry about how A.B.A. remains playable in future games! Para just turns back into an axe-key when needed (or she swings him around in human form lol).

#my reply #my answer #theorycrafting #guilty gear strive #paracelsus guilty gear #a.b.a guilty gear

[anxiety-filled-pessimist]

What if the stars in Aled’s room (where he painted the universe) represent all the paths Aled could go down and his mum painting over them in radio silence represents how she was controlling his life and chose one path for aled

#alice oseman universe #osemanverse #alice oseman #lgbtqia+ #Aled last #carol last #radio silence #universe city #osemanverse theories #theory #theorycrafting #I love this theory

[4dznsalamanders]

So I, like everyone else, am shaking the bars of my cage trying to understand what the hell 4Dawgz is DOING We've gotten a couple of wild facts for her character this episode and last weeks: 1) absolutely hates Riz SPECIFICALLY for some reason, despite him consistently being the most respectful towards her (he actually tries to say her name proper) 2) she has a lot of anger towards the Bad Kids (and Riz), and 3) she was very casual killing Buddy Dawn, even though that doesn't immediately help her... admittedly, it does threaten the Bad Kids by removing revivify, but homegirl saw Gorgug soloing a purple worm, Adaine being untouchable, Fig smiting as if she's been a paladin for years, and The Ball absolutely rocking this fight, Fabian was there, all while Kristin was being pretty conservative and prioritizing heal spells, so KipKettle has no reason to believe the Bad Kids are in true mortal peril. What does this all mean? Well, idk about you, but Kipper's absolute inexplicable rage, combined with a bunch of other weird minutia, has me pondering the Time Quangle again, and the fact the Bad Kids DID do some minor chronomancy pre-shrimp jump, I think we have more time shenanigans to go... ESPECIALLY since that girlfailure found the rogue teacher at 8:01 am, I agree with some of the theories I've seen suggesting she's stuck in a time loop. I think she hates Riz because he is consistently the one realizing, connecting the dots, and ultimately the driving force that thwarts her in her scheme, forcing her to do another loop. Her complete contempt might look unreasonable, but maybe she's been trying to complete her task for YEARS, stuck in highschool because some random hot goblin kid can't ever mind his own business. I've been sympathetic to the "BLeeM would never have such a blatant BBEG like this, there has to be a twist" crowd, and I think FishFlower RedPan callously murdering her party cleric DOES NOT negate this - as far as she's concerned, he might be the 57th Buddy Dawn she's met, so why would she care when this loop will probably fail again? If this theory is anything substantial, she literally has nothing to lose, because she can just start over again? Anyone would appear irrational and be incapable of seeing an unbiased perspective, so of course she would claim things aren't fair: she's witnessed the same group of clowns dunk on her repeatedly in every iteration. Why bother doing unique adventures that are unpredictable when you can be the RatGrinders and have the same base slate with less chaos to try and enact your grand plan?

#fhjy #fhjy spoilers #dimension 20 #this is my first unique post after leaving reddit sorry if format is bad #possibly shes just tryna pull an aguefort and no clip into heaven with Buddy Dawn #love the theorycrafters being proven right with the concerns that Buddy was a sacrificial lamb tho because yikes #still no idea what her motives are for this but like idk #still hope we get flaming gay Buddy Dawn becoming a cleric of Ankarna when he gets over being dead #time quangle