#they're cool okay they're furry snake people

[agathaarts]

Visual exploration of the best kind of OC: the kind that’s already dead when they enter a story. Wanted to make a creepy Sith Ghost, because why not, so here’s Darth Somnum, a Thisspiasian Sith who lived ages ago, whose creepy mask is considered a treasure but it always seems to make it’s way back to the temple where she died.

Darth Somnum’s master punished her by cutting something off for each failed attempt to kill him, but kept her around more as plaything and experiment. When she was out of arms to remove, he took her tongue, then one eye, then the other. On the seventh attempt, she succeeded in killing him through dream and emotion manipulation- which became her specialty. Eventually, she was killed by an apprentice of her own. She had never been more proud than that moment, given that her past several apprentices never managed to do so, and died in their attempts.

Look I love how fucked up weird we can make Sith stuff and I’ve always been a proponent of leaning into it.

Even in death, she’s a huge bitch who enjoys playing with people, dredging up memories or dragging them into fantasy/nightmare worlds she crafts out of fears and delights. Of course, given sufficient entertainment, she may decide to teach those who seek out her deathbed a few tricks- all the better to keep the galaxy on it’s toes.

Sentius and Ilvashta go to take her mask as a Sith treasure but she has a lot of fun plonking them both into force visions and making them live out traumatic memories and altered realities where they become their greatest fears. You know. Fun stuff. They survive, though, and manage to push through (barely) so she lets them take her mask and her lessons.

#star wars #star wars oc #gffa oc #thisspiasian #they're cool okay they're furry snake people #wanted to really give her a very unsettling silhouette with the huge mane of hair #darth somnum #ilvashta #ilvashta gefsarne #sentius #darth sentius

[autumnbrambleagain]

Earlier Elder Scrolls titles: So yeah the tsaesci were gold-scaled snake naga vampire immortals

Later Elder Scrolls: Actually those were just translation errors mostly! Tsaesci just look like Japanese people

like i appreciate doing the "oh historical accounts exaggerated things in metaphor and people took it seriously" but consider this instead, Todd Howard,

when choosing between a "snake-bodied immortal gold-scaled vampire samurai", and "Japanese people but they're a different species called asian" you picked not only the shitty out-dated racist version,

but you picked the BORING one

on TES lore forums back in the early 00s i used to hang out with the old developers of the games and they had a saying "that's boring and therefore wrong" and it's stuck with me in world design and storytelling ever since

i love morrowind, and it's the only game of its kind that lets me either spend all day playing Animal Crossing and decorating my house OR going on walking simulator adventures OR having intense battles with complex magic systems,

but god honestly so much of it is kidna outta date

i don't mean "oooooh euuuurrr it has plantation slavery in it you can't depict bad things in a game" honestly like no i think morrowind is a pretty good for its time examination of colonialism it's a very colonialism problems the game on purpose it's engaging it's fun

it has lore with rape and stuff in it because yeah it's engaging in the long myth history of the world and there's weird shit in mythology that's fun, modern fantasy stopped engaging with the history of myth and started it over and now it's only in dialogue with the past 30 years of dungeons and dragons and that's boring as FUCK,

but like my standards have improved. morrowind basic bitch too often. morrowind does "this is the species called 'black people'" and that's where it goes "uhhhhhhhhhh." because like holy shit all the cool redguard lore, most of that was added in afterwards and in TR and shit like ooooh buddy

there's so much potential in the sidelore and fans have added fun shit like sloads (giant necromancy slugs with living airships like hell yeah okay that's neat) and the 20 khajiiti forms and TR is supposed ot make the telvanni weird again so like hell yeah but

god so much of morrowind deep down really is just part of the ES tradition of "this species of people are Africans. this species of people are Romans. this species of people are the Japanese." and while it's not as bad as in Oblivion so much of morrowind feels its age where parts are phoned in, where parts are taken for granted, where, like

you know when you're writing you can fall into the trap of writing in stock phrases? so that everything you write is just something someone else said already, cut up and put together? it was a dark and stormy night but like for real using nothing but preconstructed phrases like legos? no real thought or effort put into how you're making the words go?

like that but for a setting is morrowind

gimme a fantasy setting where no one's a human. i don't mean furries i mean make it fucking WEIRD. since when did fantasy stop being weird?

it's become a hollow game of telephone an echo chamber in the literal sense of ideas disintegrating over time and becoming cheap mimicries of mimicries

stop doing "oh look we have elves but we gave them a TWIST" stop fucking putting elves in it entirely

tolkein invented elves off of several fae myths and then everyone went "well fantasy has to have elves for sure"

gimme weirdass rankin bass shit

the message of the movie fucking sUCKS but look at this adventuring party from flight of dragons

two dragons, a knight, a robin hood, a little gnome asshole, and a talking daddy wolf? okay now we're STARTING to get somewhere.

stop giving me "this is a mysterious fantasy race from a mysterious fantasy world... they're called... the Byzantine Empire! they have an emperor and--" stop giving me "the mysterious and haughty elves... but in this setting... they use TECHNOLOGY instead of MAGIC--" no fuck off

fantasy, and human history, extends beyond the release of ADnD

and it can go further in the other direction, too, we can move past it. we can move past "this species is a metaphor for this real life culture, with three unique things added in. no, we aren't doing it to like, do commentary on something in real life we just think Nords are fun SKYRIM BELONGS TO THE NORDS wait oops we released this just before the rise of white nationalism woops"

was it an interesting commentary on the rise of white ethnonationalism? was it even a realistic or engaging look at it? n. no. no not really the actual conflict of the Altmer trying to crush Talos because they want to revert things to the Dawn Era and Talos is decidedly shezzarine i mean you fucking visit sovngarde and see SHOR'S FUCKING THRONE and no one comments on how you're visiting akatosh's dead split personality's house while trying to defeat his """"son""" (alduin should have just been kept as fucking akatosh why did you make him his evil son why did you make it so dragons retroactively haven't been seen in eras THE EMPIRE HAD DRAGONS IN THE TIME OF MORROWIND WHAT THE FUCK you could have had the big hero at the end of oblivion (akatosh) be the bad guy of skyrim and you BABIED OUT OF IT FUCK YOU TODD HOWARD FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU YOU'RE BORING

elder scrolls literally has a species called the bretons, my dude those are LITERALLY JUST IRL FRENCH PEOPLE AND YOU ARE DOING NOTHING WITH IT

EMIL PAGLIARULO I WILL KNIFE FIGHT YOU IN THE STREETS LET'S GO

#tes #the elder scrolls #autumn says things #fantasy #stop doing shitty boring fantasy

[total-ass]

You know what. You want hot takes. Have them

Who mains who in smash Bros ultimate:

Owen: Mario (if anyone says Sans Mii gunner "megalowenvania" I swear)

Gwen: Bayonetta in blue

Heather: Bayonetta in red

Duncan: Ganondorf (also kins Ganondorf)

LeShawna: Palutena (both goddesses)

Geoff: Pikachu (electrifying personality. Life of the party)

Izzy: Hero (you never know what bullshit they're gonna pull next)

DJ: doesn't really like violence. Has an extensive collection of amiibo of all the animal characters. Instead he makes Duncan play multiplayer Star Fox with him so he can play as Peppy. Duncan agrees if DJ would play one game of Smash. Duncan tells DJ that Kazooie would cuss at him if he lost so DJ will play as ROB since he probably doesn't feel pain)

Lindsay: Peach (she doesn't really play she just has her Peach amiibo do everything for her)

Bridgette: also Pikachu (doesn't know what a smash brothers is. But Geoff plays Pikachu and she heard Pikachu can surf in Pokémon so)

Trent: toon link (hears toon link has a knack for music and once was a train engineer. Resonates with Trent)

Eva: ryu. Doesn't bother with the special combos. She thinks the game is dumb but her gf Izzy loves it so she plays

Harold: terry (tries to do mad skills with the inputs but fails miraculously). Eventually picks up Sheik

Courtney: Steve (she likes building model UN in Minecraft and likes the resource management gimmick in ssbu. Is known to choose the Enderman skin)

Katie and Sadie: Villager. They both have an Animal Crossing town together and grow hybrids. It's very gay

Beth: joker. Her fujoshi heart refuses to pick anyone else

Cody: Ness. Dork

Tyler: Little Mac. Compensates for being shit at sport. Has a fear of Banjo and Kazooie players for uhh obvious reasons.

Justin: spends an hour trying to make a Mii that looks like him. Cries because Miis cannot capture his beauty. Instead he watches Trent spam arrow as Toon Link

Noah: Daisy

Ezekiel: doesn't know who any of these characters are. Picks Pit because he sorta looks like him

Alejandro: Pokémon trainer. We know he wants to be a lion tamer plus he gets a rush of controlling 3 things instead of 1

Sierra: Lucas. She tries to copy Cody but is also trying to be her own person

Cameron: did wanna play Dr Mario but probably moaned that he's not even medically accurate or that the trajectory of his pills are astronomical. Picks Ness because he can suspend belief for that

Lightning: doesn't have time for video games (canonically said this). Picks captain Falcon because he's buff. Sam laughs when he does so. Lightning only plays as Falcon to impress Sam now

Zoey: Jigglypuff. She thinks Jiggylpuff is cute but really she just gravitates towards them because they're capable of some evil shit or something

Scott: Pichu. Looks can be deceiving.

Jo: plays Ken but she can actually do the combos. Doesn't actually like video games but she commits to everything. Has hospitalised people at tourneys when she loses

Mike: fox (furry)

Svetlana: Zero Suit Samus (also has a crush on her)

Chester: "tf is suh-boo lol. Anyways I remember donkey Kang so i guess him"

Manitoba: Greninja

Vito: also Fox (Vito is not a furry)

Mal: does it need to be said? Sephiroth

Dakota: also Jigglypuff. Zoey falls out with Dakota because Dakota is better than Zoey at her. Sam gives Dakota training

Brick: Luigi. Total beta

Anne Maria: Samus. Would wear armour if it meant protecting her hair. "Anne Maria it's not real your hair is fine" they say. They weren't there when she played with Jo.

Sam: plays a bit of everyone. Secretly plays Sans costume Mii Gunner

Dawn: Zelda. Think she's so cool and magic

B: Snake. Likes the tactics of the bombs and stuff.

Staci: Kirby. Pink and has a big mouth.

Shawn: would've played minecraft Steve. Punched his screen when the zombie skin appeared and now he refuses to do so. Instead he plays Olimar

Sky: Wii Fit Trainer. It's the gymnastics for her

Sugar: Isabelle. Cries because she's awful at the game in private

Jasmine: kind hard to decide. Maybe Daisy also because she likes flowers and she's a bit tomboyish. Maybe Piranha Plant depending on how into the whole flower shop she is

Max: Bowser Jr Bowser Jr Bowser Jr. Plays Bowser in front of others though

Scarlett: sees Cloud has a big sword and chooses him

Dave: uhh. young link. Annoying

Topher: falco. Blue and loves himself too much

Ella: Jigglypuff. Only uses Sing. Congratulates those who beat her. Sugar always plays with her because Ella is the only person she can win against sometimes. Sugar is also the only person Ella has beaten in a smash game

Amy: picks Simon Belmont. Toxic as fuck

Sammy: Mewtwo. Was a massive Pokémon nerd growing up. Didn't like using Mewtwo on her Pokémon teams but because of balancing she feels okay using Mewtwo in smash

Rodney: ALL the female alts. Villager, Corrin, Robin. He cried when he found out Pyra and Mythra were 2 girls in 1. Bought the dlc immediately

Leonard: hero and robin. What more needs to be said?

Beardo: Mega Man. Really resonates with him as he's bionic

Chris: Richter Belmont. He's awful and he likes that Richter looks sorta like him

Chef: Link. Says he does it for the strategy. In reality it's just so he can spam projectiles at Chris to piss him off so he can't approach as R*chter

Blaineley: Wario.

#total drama #td #smash bros #smash bros ultimate #I love this genre of headcanons so much