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spoiler-alert-andabunchofnumbers · 2 years

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❗❗Trigger warning for suicide❗❗

Okay, let's talk about it.

Vanille's VA tried her best.

Moving on.

From the very beginning of the game, Vanille's character is foreshadowed very well. When she's held among the other refugees of the Purge, she's smiling and willing to joke around with a gun...even though she has no idea how to use a gun and likely her only experience with them is death. That's how good Vanille is at hiding from despair.

When Hope's mother is killed, she hugs him and tells him to face it later. Notice how she says "Ciao!" here and when she will say it again. She tells Hope to face the death of his mother and the Purge "later", so happily as if she's used to being part of a mass murder scene. She's running away from fhe fear and existential pain; her motto when things get hard has become "face it later."

*Bonus how she gives Hope a gun to defend himself, but that scene ends on a gentle musical score panning down to show how Hope doesn't take up the gun for fighting in that moment - he's not angry at Snow yet, he doesn't need his anger to survive yet.*

In the Vestiage, Vanille tells Hope that he needs to tell Snow how he feels or he'll regret it forever. This is an allusion to how Vanille has many things she needed to confess, lies that she never told the truth about that are tearing her apart - but more importantly, they're tearing others apart too. When she hears about Serah being held by the fal'Cie, remember that she knows and is friends with Serah already. Serah was the one who told her to look at her problems from a distance and that running away doesn't solve anything.

When Vanille asks "Why is she turning to crystal?" Hope answers the literally reason that "She fulfilled her Focus", but actually this was a really smart use of double-meanings. Vanille wasn't asking why Serah literally turned to crystal - she was asking why Serah is turning to crystal, what Focus did she complete? They've all just kinda been standing there, so what did Serah do?

In Lake Bresha, while Hope is having a meltdown, Sazh is loudly asking questions, Lightning is angrily reeling with her emotions at both losing her sister and being a l'Cie, and Snow is completely in denial, Vanille just interrupts by saying "Oh-oh! Then let's run away! Ciao!" Her first reaction when under duress is to run away. Her cheerful reaction is her completely absolute ability to hide her emotions when bad things occur.

*Another fun bonus: when Lightning is holding Snow at sword-point when he encourages them to complete their Focus and everyone's interrupted by PSICOM soldiers, Lightning very easily could've just pretended to still be an active Guardian Corps member from Bodhum since her resignation was so unofficial and she's still in uniform. Instead, she actively takes the chance to drop-kick that sucker because she is pissed off and it's hilarious*

When Lightning splits off from the group in the Vile Peaks and she and Hope get cut off from Vanille and Sazh, she just says, "Run? We should run. If we rush in now, we'll just get in [Lightning's] way." When they see the army converging on Palumpolum and likely on Lightning and Hope, Vanille comforts Sazh by saying, "Right, no choice. We run—the other way."

What really begins to test Vanille's resolve is when she learns that she was responsible for essentially cursing not only Serah but now Dajh too. Because of her running from her Focus by pretending she doesn't know what it is, Serah was branded by Anima into a Pulse l'Cie, and Dajh got branded in the Euride Gorge by Kujata into a Cocoon fal'Cie.

What really hurts about this reveal is that Sazh first told her that he just had a son. She's encouraging him to hold it together and defy his l'Cie fate, thinking that "the l'Cie thing" is Sazh himself being a l'Cie, not Dajh.

Vanille's running is hurting people, and when people are hurt, she runs even further. Then more people are hurt and she keeps running. Similar to Snow, Vanille doesn't know if she can ever even begin to apologize for how many lives she's ruined. Unlike Fang, she also remembers the War of Transgression, where her actions doomed many both Pulsian and Cocoon people (Cocoonians?) - she's holding the guilt of running away from a war, then when she wakes up, she runs from her Focus again because she can't stand more people getting hurt, but people get hurt anyway.

It's one thing for she herself to be a victim, but seeing Sazh mourning his son - younger than Serah, younger than Hope, just a little kid in the wrong place at the wrong time - and she knows it's all her fault is tearing her up inside because she can't run from Sazh. The last time she lied about information, Fang went on a murder spree to try and kill the fal'Cie which caused Dajh to be made a l'Cie in the first place. So naturally, it all blows up with Sazh too.

The worst part about it, in my opinion, is that Dajh was the one who found the Pulse l'Cie in Bodhum. A child was the reason that the entire town of Bodhum was Purged, but Dajh likely didn't know what he was doing, and the only reason he was branded was because Fang and Vanille attacked Kujata at Euride. Fang and Vanille waking didn't cause Bodhum to be Purged; Dajh being branded caused the Purge.

In Nautilus, Sazh is trying to cheer her up. Sazh is protecting her along their journey because he can't leave Vanille to fend for herself. He's confessed what happened to his son to her, he trusts her enough to tell her about how much Dajh loved the chocobos, how he went to the fal'Cie trying to kill it for Dajh's sake...and even that he'd considered killing his fellow l'Cie if it would save Dajh from his fate. That also means that Sazh is willing to kill himself - but his chocobo just lands on his pistol and shakes its head.

Sazh bought that chocobo chick for Dajh on the day Dajh got branded - purchasing that chick was what made him lose Dajh that day. But that chick also reminds Sazh of the reason that he's still going. Dajh wouldn't want him to kill himself or turn on his friends...so instead he's just running away with Vanille. He has no idea whether Dajh is a crystal or not, whether he'll ever be able to see Dajh again now that he's explicitly a Pulse l'Cie and his son's direct enemy.

Both Vanille and Sazh represent the party running from their fate, while Lightning, Snow, and Hope are charging head-first into delusions and danger in order to avoid confronting the truth. Keep in mind that Nautilus comes after Palumpolum, where the latter three have just confronted their feelings and have made the decision to stop running.

Now, in Nautilus, Sazh is the one telling Vanille to forget about the heavy stuff, to forget about the other l'Cie in Palumpolum, to let their brands just fade away. He takes Vanille to Nautilus Park where Dajh always wanted to go. And let's be honest, a whole park with chocobos and fuzzy sheep is heaven, okay?

Now Final Fantasy has dealt with terrible situations before, but 13 has always had an air of levity to it and a PG 13 vibe. But when Sazh finally admits that he's going to turn himself in, that's Sazh finally giving up on running from his fate and essentially volunteering to get killed if it means he'll have one last chance to see his son.

He says he's tired of running. All this time, Vanille has been living on the fact that running will help put the bad things behind them or at least give you time to face the situation later. Sazh has run away with her, but he's tired of running - running hasn't helped him, running never can.

Vanille is so desperate to give him a chance to keep living, she tries using revenge. Notice the parallels in this scene with Hope's situation. Hope is using anger and revenge as the only thing to keep himself going, and Vanille is reasoning that revenge will be enough motivation for Sazh to keep going. It all plays out a bit like a soap opera where Vanille gets cut off before she can confess that it was her, but it reinforces that Sazh may be willing to let himself get caught, but keeping Vanille alive is motivating him more than killing her might have.

The scene after the Midlight Reaper is honestly horrifying if it weren't such a cartoony game. Sazh's son should be locked up under PSICOM's security, and you almost think it has to be an illusion when Dajh runs up and finds his father like it's just a game of catch to him. Dajh has been made his father's enemy, and Dajh's ability to sense Pulse is probably what brought him there. This is the boy whose power caused the Purge, who was branded because of Vanille specifically (even if her inaction caused Fang to be reckless). And Dajh is here in Nautilus because Sazh wanted to take him to the amusement park to see the chocobos. The chocobo chick lands in Dajh's hair, Dajh is just happy to see his dad, Sazh is just amazed that he's able to see Dajh - which he thought would be impossible without turning himself in to PSICOM to die.

(Reminder that Nautilus is actually a city and the amusement park aspect is just built into it; people actually live full-time in Nautilus and there's a Nautilus security regiment just like Bodhum has a security regiment in the Guardian Corps)

Then, literally in an instant, while Sazh is close enough to embrace him, Dajh turns to crystal. The difference between Pulse and Cocoon crystals is amazing, but Dajh's crystal is made arguably worse than Serah's transformation because it happens so quickly that he doesn't get last words, and rather than being turned completely to crystal, Dajh is more encased within it - he's still smiling up at his father, oblivious to the whole situation, and he'll be frozen like that potentially forever, his last smile to his father on his face for essentially eternity.

The bell tolls above them (fun fact: there are 13 hours, as revealed in Lightning Returns), signaling the end of Dajh's time. I was honestly worried that the chocobo chick had got caught in Dajh's hair and turned to crystal too - like that would just be insult to injury.

Crystallization is essentially a family-friendly way of saying we just killed this kid. Even if it is later revealed that Dajh can and will one day wake up just like Serah, in this moment Sazh just lost his entire reason for continuing on as long as he had. His chocobo chick was a reminder of Dajh, that if he just kept surviving, there was still hope that maybe he'd see Dajh again - not knowing if Dajh was a crystal or not was one thing, but seeing Dajh fully turn to crystal essentially in his arms was enough to make Sazh completely fall apart.

Nabaat strolls in and makes a bad situation worse when she reveals footage (impossible angles and that picture is in no way grainy, but whatever) of the Euride incident showing Vanille as one of the Pulse l'Cie that attacked the energy plant. Though notably, in the footage, Vanille is advocating that they ignore their Focus, but PSICOM wouldn't care, so neither might Sazh.

Vanille's reaction is to run.

She full-on imagines Sazh angry enough to shoot her, reminding her of how many people she's used as shields. She acts kind and innocent and those who care about her like Fang and Sazh put themselves in the line of fire to save her, but Serah and Dajh and all the innocents in Bodhum, all the people of Cocoon who are Purged or will be Purged, all the people of the War of Transgression - Vanille's got an extremely high death count and running can't save her forever.

She's run for so long that her guilt has piled into an enormous weight that absolutely crushes her when she has no one left. Serah was kind to her, but Serah's a crystal now. Hope relied on her for a short period, but he's surviving with Lightning and Snow and honestly on his own now. Fang looked after her to the point that they got separated and Vanille's lies caused her to act recklessly. Now, Sazh, who had relied on her to keep smiling and keep faith that he'll see his son again, has also had his son turned into a l'Cie and then into a crystal because of her. She has no one left who need her and no one left to protect her.

Notably, that's just an illusion of Sazh. She's convinced that he's telling her to die. She stands up and is ready to die when he catches up to her. She wants to die so that Sazh can get revenge and feel better.

But unlike Hope, Sazh is an adult. He recognizes that killing Vanille isn't going to make him feel better. It isn't going to bring Dajh back. In fact, he gets even more angry when Vanille says that he should shoot her for his son's sake. Sazh isn't someone who would shoot and kill someone, let alone in the name of his son. Dajh was kind and light-hearted and comforted his father even when his mother was out of the picture. Killing someone in Dajh's name would be an insult to his son, and Sazh has no time for that bullshit when he has to do everything he can to remember Dajh and honor his essentially-dead son.

Somehow, these two suicidal l'Cie actually managed to give each other therapy because both of them want the other to survive even if they themselves die. My favorite line in this part is "You think you die and that's that? You think you die and everything will be sugar and rainbows?" He's fully aware that just killing Vanille isn't going to make anything better. Her death won't fix everything, it will only let her escape her guilt.

He's making Vanille choose whether to live or die, because if she wants to die so much, he isn't going to be the one to kill her.

Sazh is holding his brand from the moment he confronts Vanille, conflicted on whether he himself should live or die. What makes Sazh rise up to fight his Eidolon isn't his own life - it's Vanille's. Vanille is willing to stand up to keep Sazh from giving up and dying to an Eidolon who's trying to convince him to live, Sazh is willing to get up to keep Vanille from dying for him.

And Brynhildr is cool and got me into the Volsunga Saga, so like, yeah.

The fact that Sazh tries but isn't able to kill neither Vanille nor himself proves that his Eidolon actually did help him. Sazh was so frustrated at himself for being unable to shoot Vanille, no matter what she had done and how many mistakes she had made. He's frustrated that he still wants to live and he's willing to fight to live. He thought that he was fighting his Eidolon in order to save Vanille, but he was also fighting for his own life, and by defeating his Eidolon, he proved that he wanted to keep living, whether he realized what he was doing or not.

What's worse is that Nabaat comes in again and says that Dajh's crystal will be put on display as a memorial. Like literally, this little boy turned to crystal is just going to be put up as a "monument to sacrifice", as though Dajh intended to give up his father to PSICOM to be killed in a public execution, as though Dajh found his father in an effort to turn to crystal rather than just wanting to see his father in Nautilus where he'd always wanted to go. As though Dajh Purged an entire town for the sake of Cocoon, as though he captured his father so that he wouldn't live in shame as the son of a Pulse l'Cie rather than actually just loving his dad and being an innocent kid.

It really makes you hate Dysley/Barthandelus later when the anticipated boss battle with Nabaat is cut off abruptly by him. Like, the first time that scene happens, it's a huge reveal! Nabaat is a cunning and sadistic ass who you look forward to beating up, but she's struck down by Barthandelus and he reveals himself to be an actual fal'Cie, where we all thought of him as just a human tool. Turns out, Nabaat is a took, and all her loyalty and cruelty can be cut down by her own superior in an instant.

Her DLC fight in XIII-2 is pretty cool though. Nabaat as a villain is really good. She's top of her class in the army, she's got fabulous hair, she's good at emotional manipulation through a caring façade, and unlike Rosche, she actually did capture her target l'Cie. Though Rosche also had a change of heart at the end and admits to orchestrating mass murder when he falsely trusted the fal'Cie and he would've been a great villain to reform but that's not a story for now.

Sazh hears the full story from Vanille, how his son will eventually be freed from crystal, and just like Lightning and Snow, he resolves to wait and survive however long it takes to see his son again. Just like them, he doesn't know how or when it will be, but he's holding onto something again.

When they escape in the Palamecia, they're not running away anymore. They're both scared of what awaits them, but Sazh points out that they're more scared of dying and giving up now. He's scared of dying so much that he's pushing himself to live now, remembering his son's laughter rather than mourning his loss. It's "time to split. Not run. There's a difference."

I've reached my image limit for Tumblr! Will I reach the word limit? Is there such a thing?!

Basically, if you complete the first some 14 quests on Gran Pulse before pursuing the storyline, Vanille reveals in the Paddraean Archaeopolis that she's claiming to have been the one to have become Ragnarok, leaving Fang to think that she did nothing - when it's actually the opposite. (Also the characters point out that they should try following Dahaka since it lives near Oerba, so Taejin's Tower isn't the first time they can technically see it).

Vanille's still lying. She tries to tell the truth on the Palamecia, but she gets delayed. Then Barthandelus happens, and she gets delayed, thinking that perhaps telling Fang the truth will make her want to destroy Cocoon to fulfill their Focus.

Hope confides in Vanille that sometimes you do have to lie to keep yourself going. It wasn't unreasonable for any of them to use lies to survive, but what mattered is what happened afterwords. Vanille just kept lying and kept running. Hope used his lies to survive, confront Snow, and then he let go and faced his feelings in the end.

Meanwhile Sazh makes up with Fang when he finds the chocobos. He knows Fang's also responsible for Euride, but he doesn't blame either of them - at least, he's willing to forgive because he knows who they are as people. He's taking responsibility for letting Dajh out of his sight, but he's not facing his guilt alone. He's learned that facing everything alone is their downfall. Foreshadowing for Fang in the ending, taking on everything alone.

When Vanille faces her Eidolon, her last lie has been revealed. She's not alone anymore, she has a new family, and there will be no more running away.

#ffxiii #final fantasy xiii #sazh katzroy #dajh katzroy #vanille #oerba dia vanille #long post #everyone has issues in this game seriously #but they actually work out their issues and confront them #this got really long #I wanted to give you a picture of chocobo chicks at the end but I ran out of pictures and didn't want to split this into multiple posts

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codenamesazanka · 1 year

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Has Deku revealed his intentions of saving Shigaraki to anyone outside of the vestiage realm. Has he declare this desire to Shigaraki/AFO/the League at all. Or is he just gonna punch this unspoken message and feeling into the guy.

idk. i just feel like it’s something that should be firmly stated out loud. Shigaraki, I want to help you. or All For One, I will defeat you and save Shigaraki. Let the guy know what’s happening. Gotta open a communication channel, even if a little bit, you know?

#interventions usually go better when you tell someone what you’re going to do #instead of ambushing them in the night and brute force them into submission #whatever happen to shounen protags pointing at their target with fiery determination #and loudly and firmly declaring their goal #nalslastworkingbraincell

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lycantripuwu · 3 months

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Legends of Barovia update! Its been a while and a lot of sessions since i did one!

Rhil has lycanthropy, we banished an escaped vestiage/demonlord, Traveled around with Ezmerelda and got harrassed by Morgantha

-We got back from the lonely tower to find Milijov abd Henrick about to be publicly executed by Rahadin for stealing the bones.

-Rhil stepped up and successfully talked down their sentence, they were only publicly lashed. Rahadin actually seemed sad that Rhil was glaring at him so hard.

-Mirre used his scryglass he got from the lonely tower and figured out where Anastrasya took the female children and Reek

-Rhil made a pact with Mother Night through her vestiage in the amber shard named Pandoryum. Hes serving as a conduit for Mother Nights power.

-Rhil got flash backs to her time as a priestess of Mother Night, her life before her temple was destroyed, and she was killed. Mother Night was a celestial archfey who was betrayed by the Rozana, the ladies three, and was sealed away by the fanes. Rhil was told that in order to free Mother Night, she had to use the gems at their respective fanes to destroy the seals.

-we headed out in the morning by horse to check a small town named Reneka. According to Urwin, it used to be a large trading hub for lumber until all communications stopped and traders started disapearing.

-We cross some flooding and end up at a sketchy lumbermill, it was filled with lycanthropes. Werewolves, werebats and wereboars, oh my. Combat ensues after we find out Anastraysa dropped off "unsuitable" children and the lycans have either been sending them to Kresk or snacking on them. We win after hordes of wolves and lycans. Both werebats fled, but not before Mirre branded one with his brand of castigation.

-Rhil and Jace got bitten, Rhil by a werewolf and Jace by a wereboar. Rhil learned that lycanthropy was created by Mother Night to serve as guardians of Cerrunos to protect the forests and it's been slowly corrupted by the mists since she was sealed away. Pandoryum told Rhil that if she can learn to control it, it will help her later on.

-Rhil grew up with lycanthropes, her Auntie Irda who she adores is a werewolf. So she's choosing to embrace the lycanthropy. Jace on the otherhand, does not want it. So through an old Mother Night ritual and help from Pandoryum, they cured Jace of his lycanthropy.

-We move on after sending back a group of traders with a girl from the orphanage back to Vallaki with our horses, and we make it to Reneka. Which is in horrible condition, tons of corpses litering the streets. We get chased around a bit by demonic statues that reform after being killed and end up at a old monastery of the morninglord which is arguably worse then the town itself.(very diablo like it was great)

-we prepare for a fight and armed with a banishment ritual to be rid of Arsynax, the lord of plauges. Rhil and Jace are eventually killed, trying to set up the ritual. Luckily Mirre stayed alive so he could finish the ritual and banished Arsynax.

-Mirre went to revivify Jace and Rhil, But one of his vestiges, Tarakamedes, stated the dead needed to remain dead and wasted a revivify scroll as Mirre tried to use it. Mirre begged his other vestige, Seriach, for help. After back and forth between the two(felt like a dad and mom arguement), Tarakamedes said he would help this once, but if both died, Mirre himself would not be able to revive them and they needed to stay dead. Seriach stated that Mirre owed him a favor before both dissapeared after reviving Rhil and Jace.

-after some much needed rest and Mirre getting got by a nightmare haunting from Morgantha. We headed out to follow the trail of one of the werebats marked by Mirre's brand of Castigation.

-we were eventually ambushed by spawns, wolves and werewolves, we got surounded pretty quick.

-a lighting bolt came from the trees and took out a few we had whittled down and in came Ezmerelda to help us fight!

-after the fight settled, we talked and turns out Ezmerelda has been tracking a pack of loup garu for personal reasons(her missing leg) and came across us. Believing we could possibly put her on a lead to the loup garu's, she offered to help us find and save the children.

-after hours of traveling and some catching up and learning about eachother, Mirre and Ez bantered quite a bit. Talking about past monster hunter stories while Rhil was fangirling in the back since she knows Mirre's has a crush on Ez. Ez is also looking for Rudolph Van Richten, who without a word, just up and left for Barovia.

-we eventually get to a cave, we fight our way inside and turns out that Anastrasya learned Mirre cared about Reek and took him with her back to Ravenloft. We figure out that shes been experimenting on these little girls and has them turned into undead and caged up in cells, a lot of them we recognize from the orphanage. The only one that wasnt fully turned was a little girl named Myrtle, a little girl we saved from the hags, but something definitely wasnt quite right about her.

-we quickly get ambushed by the bloodthirsty spawn and have to fight and kill off a bunch of children. we make it out through a back entrance since Anastrasya had traps set up to cave us in and we popped out on the other side of the mountain.

-Ez is about to part ways until Mirre confesses that he knows where Van Richten is and offered to lead her to him. Despite Richten telling him to steer Ez away from himself, Mirre's going through some things with the recent death of his mentor and feels Ez deserves the chance to at least talk to Richten. Ez appreciates it and comes along with us to travel to Vallaki.

-Morgantha shows up and offers to leave us alone in the future if we hand over Myrtle. We, of course, refused and get chased into the woods by large hordes of the undead and three yeth hounds. Morgantha saying she will make our lives living nightmares.

-after being chased around the woods, we try to settle for night after stumbling across a group of Dwarves that ended up in Barovia that day and have been lost.

-after some drinks, food and heavy flirting between Mirre and Ez. We get ambushed by sorrowsworn who tear through the dwarves and kill every one infront of us.

-after us quickly getting overwhelmed, Mirre dies and is torn apart infront of Ez, Jace being next until our lights go out and Rhil gets a powersurge from Pandoryum, entering a shadowy state where shes nothing but a black silhouette with glowing purple eyes and scares them off. Mirre gets revived by Pandoryum.

-Ez helps tend to Mirre who resets up his rites. Ez states that while the rites are useful, it was hard for her to see him bleed so soon after watching him die

-We have successfully killed off two yeth hounds but are chased into cave/crypt by a horrible storm. we open a coffin that was recently moved to find and unconcious Jace. Turns out the second we entered the cave Morgantha swapped him out with a fake Jace. Fake Jace looking corrupted and dead with a sword all to familiar to Vladimir's. The illusion disappears before it can strike us and Morgantha strolls in.

-She curses us. The curses go like this.

"We can do so much more then give you wee little nightmares dearies, we can make them into reality. You have no idea what you've messed with."

She sets her gaze upon Mirre. "You gave us your voice, son of bloody hunts, now let it strike fear into all those you converse with." A cold tickle can be felt within your throat.

She shifts her gaze toward Rhil. "You gave us your heart, daughter of night, now let it be drowned in the dark seas of doubt." A slight tightening can be felt within your chest.

Her gaze then lingers on the sarcophagus containing Jace. "The son of bright kings light gave us his word, a paladin is only as good as the oaths he keeps, is he not?"

-then she summons a huge shadow monster and atleast 9 shadows before leaving.

A fight ensues, Jace remaining unconsious the entire time. Mirre gets dragged off by the large shadow while Rhil and Ez fend off the smaller shadows.

Once Rhil clears up a lot of the shadows with spirit guardians. Ez races to try and help Mirre whos fighting for his life, she upcasts her lighting bolt and does just enough damage to let Mirre finish it off. Mirre only had 2 strength left, so he would have died if he got hit again.

-the fight ends, we get Jace up who has a level of exhaustion now and Ez carries Mirre since hes to weak to stand and we flee as fast as we can out of there.

-the session ends when we finally pop out of the woods at the walls of Vallaki!

#dnd #ttrpg #dungeons and dungeons #curse of strahd #mirre uldras #ezmerelda d'avenir #rhil darkstar #jace brightcrest

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nyxitycatboy · 5 months

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dead by daylight's lightburn was actually a really good mechanic but because it was the last vestiage of "certain items r specially good against certain character :)" it was axed and while in the process did make wraith and hag be in better places (probably, idk how the adjustment has been affecting hag and i didn't mention artist or spirit bcuz i have no idea how their buff from that is treating them >w>) they cld've removed wraith's unneccesary vulnerability and make hag reworked hag's traps without in the process buffing nurse and removing the actually really good idea of "since this item affects killers but some are way way less affected we can give them their own interactions!"

#feel the need to reiterate that the last time they changed nurse was removing counterplay survivor had against her

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dumbass-rogue · 1 year

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Wow so i really thought they would condense Umbrasyl and Ripley together, but I guess next season plus the other vestiages plus the 3 other dragons oooooooooo boy

#cr spoilers #tlovm spoilers #tlovm

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raan-miir-tah · 2 years

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Ho oh ohhhh guess who just finished outlining the rest of the broken bones of the children’s god :)))

This fic’s got everything. Trauma, found family, dark sbi, daedra, aedra, eso lore for some reason, more trauma.

PLUS I got the most self indulgent fic idea ever that’s going to mix Hannah, bedwars siblings, the dawnguard, Meridia, and Serana into one plot line. If you couldn’t tell I have a favorite faction and it is the vampire hunters <3

#kyne shouts #i always wanted to write hannah but with a sister #and guess who is right there. in the dawnguard dlc. SERANA #something something a vampire hunting paladin sacrificing everything to save her family (all vampires)#i could also be soooo annoying and make dawnbreaker talk bc of darien #but I like my vestiage that ends up marrying him too much to trap him in a sword for thousands of years :/#i stopped playing Skyrim due to difficulties getting it to function and exclusively played eso for months. IT SHOWS

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i-say-vol-you-say-tron · 4 years

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Why All For One is Not Darth Vader

He’s actually Emperor Palpatine, making Shigaraki the stand in for Darth Vader.

Spoilers for up to chapter 272.

1. Appearance

While AFO sports what can be considered to be a copy of the iconic Darth Vader mask, it is actually what is under the mask that counts in this case. All For One once looked normal. He could easily blend into a crowd if you didn’t know where to look, up until All Might beat his face to a bloody pulp. Similarly, Emperor Palpatine was once Chancellor Palpatine and was a part of the Senate he fought to destroy. It is not until his fight with Mace Windu in Episode Three (Revenge of the Sith) that he looks like the disfigured old man that is easily recognizable from the original trilogy. The hood Palpatine uses disguises his disfigured face, similar to the respirator AFO wears.

2. Powers

Palpatine is known for his iconic lightning. When All For One activates his quirks, we see the similar lightning motif. It can be argued that this is just to draw parallels between All For One and Deku (fuelling the theory that they are father and son) but one has to remember that All For One is the (unintentional) creator of the One For All quirk. It’s like the two sides of the Force, the light sight being a power passed on through the generations whereas the dark side is a power that hordes more power.

3. Roles

While Darth Vader is the more iconic villain of the Star Wars series, Emperor Palpatine is still top of the food chain. Vader refers to him as “Master” several times throughout the original trilogy, just as Shigaraki does with All For One. Both AFO and Palpatine play the role of teacher where Shigaraki and Vader play the role of student.

Onto Shigaraki, as he shares a lot more parallels with Vader than you’d expect.

1. Light vs Dark

Darth Vader was once Anakin Skywalker. Tomura Shigaraki was once Tenko Shimura. Anakin was being trained to be a Jedi and Shigaraki wanted desperately to be a hero. One of the reasons that Anakin turned to the dark side was because he was manipulated by Palpatine. He was told that the dark side would give him the power to protect his loved ones from death, as well as give him the recognition that the Jedi Council never could. Shigaraki was told that his misfortune had been caused by the heroes he once idolized. Both were turned against the very things they had fought so hardly to be.

2. Physique/Transformation

The siege on Deika (Ch. 218-240 according to the wiki) unleashed the full power of Shigaraki’s quirk. However, due to the nature of his quirk, he almost destroyed his body in the process, which prompts him to ask Ujiko to give him a power boost. As of chapter 268, Tomura Shigaraki is not yet Vader, but still Anakin. Youngling-killer Anakin, but still Anakin. He has not undergone his transformation yet. At the end of Episode Three, Anakin’s burnt up, mutilated body was found and given multiple prosthetics (as well as the respirator that makes the recognizable breathing noise). When Shigaraki emerged from his slumber in 272, he had fully become Darth Vader. [Bonus: Upon emerging from the lab that gave him the upgrades, Tomura, just like Anakin, will be informed of the demise of someone close to him - Twice (Padmé).]

3. Relationship To The Protagonist

This bullet-point is heavily reliant on the theory that Deku and Shigaraki are somehow related, much like Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker, except as cousins rather than father and son.

Izuku already has a lot of parallels comparing him to Luke Skywalker. They are both the protagonist that started off as nothing, with Izuku being quirkless and Luke being a farm boy. Izuku was taught by All Might (Yoda) about a power that very few know about, taking into account that OFA is a well-guarded secret, and that Jedi are nearly extinct in Episode Four (A New Hope) and Episode Five (The Empire Strikes Back), with Luke being their last hope (not counting Leia because it is unclear who her BNHA counterpart will be). Both Luke and Izuku were trained on Dagobah (in Izuku’s case being the beach he cleared of trash). These were intentionally done by the author, who is a Star Wars fan, and could possibly be a hint to some foreshadowing.

4. Force Ghosts/Vestiges

Izuku can interact with the vestiges of the former holders of One For All by using their quirks, similarly to the way Luke can talk to past Jedi Masters. Like Luke, Izuku can call upon the power of past holders of OFA (ie “The Force is with him”).

While it might not be a comparison, Shigaraki speaks to his father as if he can still hear him. This is shown mainly when Father is thrown off of Shigaraki’s person, where he becomes angry as if his father can still feel pain. Shigaraki also recently had a conversation with his family prior to awakening, and it is believed that Nana somehow connected to him through AFO/OFA (as AFO has said he could “hear [his] brother’s voice” and possibly communicate with him). Izuku is seen plainly able to talk directly to the vestiges of OFA, and they seem well aware of what is going on in the real world as well. Both Shigaraki and Izuku commune with the people they consider to be their dead predecessors. It is shown in Star Wars that members of both sides of The Force are able to speak to their predecessors, with Luke and Vader being able to additionally sense each other’s presence and read their feelings. While I don’t want to bring in the newer episodes because the BNHA manga was originally published before the release of Episode Seven (The Force Awakens), Kylo Ren is seen asking his grandfather (Darth Vader, who is well past the point of death/becoming one with The Force) for guidance as he fears he is being swayed back to the light side - similarly to how Shigaraki speaks with Father and recently spoke with the members of his family, asking them to not hold him back.

TL;RD - Shigaraki is actually the stand-in for Darth Vader, with All For One as his Emperor Palpatine and Izuku as his Luke Skywalker, as shown through the relationships between these characters, their dynamics, quirks, and backstories.

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The Beginning Part 1 Side 1

Part 1 Side 1 to my The Story of the Two Vestiges Au here is Sammy’s side of the story.

Sammy walked down the streets of his home humming to himself as he passed the merchants selling their goods. The bard singing their songs for those who would listen to them as they weaved their tales for the masses of the marketplace. He stopped for a moment to listen to them before dropping a couple of gold pieces into the nearby wooden bowl for them. Before he moved on stopping when a woman in a cart called him over asking for his help as the male stopped and walked over to see what was wrong. The young Breton male listened to her explain that her master was looking for someone to help them. And not one to pass up on helping others in need he told her he’d go find her master and talk to them. Grateful the woman gave him the location of where they were at “you can find them in a house just down the road,” she tells him pointing toward it. Sammy gave a nod as he started to walk his way to the house walking up to the door knocking a few times before walking in. The door opened to the room only dimly lit by candles a bit off but nothing new most people like the lighting to be like this. Thinking nothing about it the male went further in and over to a table nearby where someone sat at a table facing away from him “hello?” he called to them as he walked over. Getting no reply making the male wonder if the other was lost in their work and didn’t hear him making him move closer to the other. Reaching out he put a hand on the other's shoulder when he did so the other faced him revealing a bound and gagged Redguard. Before the male could do anything he felt something hit him in the back of the head causing him to collapse on to the ground everything going dark.

Everything after was a blur his time in a cell followed by him being put in line with other shackled prisoners. Being pulled along down a flight of stairs as the faces of the other prisoners and captors went by. He along with the other prisoners were brought to a room that smelled of death and rot filled his nostrils making him want to gag. Sammy heard the sound of a knife against skin followed by death groans and bodies being moved to another corner of the room. He looked to see a tall man at the head of the room holding a strange gem in his hand muttering something stabbing the person on the slab. Causing him to flinch as he watched the life of the other on said slab to leave their body before they dragged them off. They pulled Sammy forward laid down on his back against the wet and sticky cold slab looking up at the other male seeing that the other was an Imperial wear strange garb. He watched and listen as the other muttered a few words as he held the crystal then watched as the other raised the knife. Before he felt it plunge deep into his chest causing him to gasp coughing up a bit of blood as he felt the life leave his body. Felt as his very soul was pulled into the strange gem the other held before everything went dark around him.

Sammy felt as if his body was just falling going further and further down a large hole. Around him what looked to be a swirl of ink from an inkwell all around him a face showing up before him. One that looked to be that of a demon with a wide smile before it roared opening its mouth wide swallowing him. Darkness overtaking him once more before the male opened his eyes sitting up with a groan as he looked at his strange surroundings. Trying to make head or tales of where he was at that moment and what was going on trying to gather his memories up of the previous few hours.

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