I was watching a Youtube video of all the Cinematic from the new Overwatch Invasion update (cause heaven knows I ain't buying it) and I noticed at the end Ramattra has this like.. Burn? Mark?? On his chest that goes through his cape
So I downloaded Overwatch on my PC to get a look at the Wandering/Traveling Monk skins this scene is using and I noticed..
Traveling and Wandering have a lot of visual differences, most notably in the burn the originally got my attention.
Wandering has been used canonically to show Ramattra's monk days previously, in his origin story and in the Developer commentary, but interestingly the artwork in those videos is lacking that very burn
Overwatch character designers are very good at visual storytelling, especially with Omnics (I could write an essay on what they've done with Zenyatta), so I believe this burn may very well be what became the Last Straw for Ramattra, what pushed him to leave the Shambali, what caused his fall into violence and eventually Talon.
Was he attacked? Or was he attempting to protect someone else? Despite his best efforts to shield them, the shot fired right past him, scorching his metal, cutting through his cape, and taking their life...
I hope we learn more about it.
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Theory: The Clone X was not Cody like some people think or even Fives (I know he's been dead for a very long time but so was Boba Fett and look where we are. Plus, Echo was supposed to be certainly dead too; making him Winter Soldier-esque storyline wouldn't be that surprising) or not even Slick.
((Also, now that we've seen his face devoid of any tattoos or scars I think first two takes are definitely not applicable anymore; they wouldn't put that much effort to make him unrecognizable))
Back to the point: In my opinion, The Clone X was none other than...
Fox.
Now let me explain.
Who else, other than X, was loyal to the law and justice dictated by it over any moral or ethic code?
Fox.
Who else was portrayed with such single-minded focus on hunting down traitors of the government he served, regardless of what it was?
Fox.
Who else could know not only Coruscant so well but also identify Rex like they knew each other?
He already was a remarkably successful tracker of traitors, why not make him more efficient by pointing them out for him?
Good soldiers follow orders, after all.
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listen in my head there’s like, a slightly au version of canon slightly to the left where after joe leaves hermitopia and the enemy of the state thing happens he’s a bit more bitter about it and then e!false hires him and instead of it being one temp job he ends up just permanently being a citizen of cogsmede and. okay maybe he’s betraying the hermits a little—a lot—but they accused him of doing it first, is the thing. he hadn’t actually betrayed anyone, he’d just decided to leave, and they labeled him a traitor and a coward. so when e!false asks, if he starts telling her whatever she wants to know and also more—well, it’s only what he was already supposedly doing, he’s just… actually doing it this time. and we go from there. joe and e!false bond over sort of being outcasts.
and then if I’m REALLY self-indulgent with this canon to the left. joe is also cub’s friend and is willing to vouch to bring a (somewhat possessed) cub into the fold; he’ll just clean up if he does anything dangerous around cogsmede. elsewhere, though, is perhaps fair game,
and like. idk where this is going. but I’m just saying that somewhere in my head this only very slightly nudged version of events exists where joe is slightly more bitter and even more removed from the other hermits and also he’s with my empires blorbo,
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What do you think would have happend with Jace if he had survived the Dance?
oh this is fun, thanks for the question!
survived as in everything happens the same except jace survived the gullet? i won't get into mechanics of this happening because i'd involve too many moving parts and what ifs and blatant avoidance of certain parts. so whatever. let's say daemon and aemond kill each other, aegon kills rhaenyra and imprisons baela and baby aegon.
two things:
1) if jace is in dragonstone, let's say recuperating from his injuries, in reality i don't think aegon would kill him just like he didn't kill rhaenyra's heir at the moment. jace might be too injured to truly pose a threat or aegon's advisors would "protect" him like they did baela.
2) jace is not in dragonstone. he could be healthy or injured but he's not there when aegon takes the island for some reason. i've read fic where he's with the northern/riverlands army or makes his way to the capital alone after aegon's dead. in any case, he reaches the capital at some point.
when the greens are neutralized and all the heads turn to rhaenyra's children, it's probable that the support would be split between the older, seasoned prince of dubious birth and the young, unresponsive prince of clear ancestry. the things is while a regency happened in canon i don't think anybody wanted to do that. the issues lingering needed to be solved NOW, the armies needed to be disbanded NOW, alicent and jaehaera needed to be secured NOW. even if jace is physically injured or abed at this moment, i think he would get the clear support of the biggest faction aka the riverlands, the vale, and the north. on the other side, he's corlys' grandson, he was a dragonrider (let's assume the dragon still died sowwy), he's commanded armies, and if he married baela that moment, he could be having an heir by the next year. the succession and therefore the kingdom, is stable.
i'm not saying there wouldn't be people vying for baby aegon's ascension just to be against jace perceived bastardy now or down the line but it's more likely that he gets more support to get the crown and just end the war once and for all.
so jace takes the crown immediately. i don't think the hour of the wolf happens at all, most of the attributions cregan takes for himself came from intimidating baby aegon and probs by being the highest ranking lord in a place where everybody was burning incriminating papers from the last reign lmao. i think he would be a lot more aligned with corlys in sending peace terms first, but would not hesitate if the rest of the kingdom didn't fall in line. as for aegon ii's advisors, to me jace would try to get them out quietly. stay for a bit but sending them home as soon as he could. corlys betrayed the blacks, jace would probably marry baela as a reward for past services (and bc he loves her obviously etc) and dismiss him to driftmark. thanks to jace, corlys has his legitimate heir in alyn, he's more than okay.
for people like larys, the ironrod, orwyle and tyland....... they were aegon's closest advisors and while i don't think jace would imprison them or kill them i think he'd test them in some way to prove they can change their loyalty and move on. after a few months or years when the transition smooths out, i would bet jace will be dismissing them for lords who are 100% on his side. i'd say all would do it because at least in the show i don't see them supporting the greens out of personal reasons, not enough to die for the memory of aegon OR jaehaera's claim, you know? and in any case, it /is/ a man that is ruling now lmao lol. i still see jasper wylde pushing his daughter to baby aegon if jace is not available anymore, tho.
jace wouldn't kill alicent or jaehaera either. i think the death of so many people and most of all, his brothers, would affect him very much. at this point alicent is described as mad and jaehaera is a traumatized child. he wouldn't send them to oldtown or keep them together all the time but i don't think he would be cruel (as for jaehaera's future, well, that's another story). they are his family after all and most of the threats are neutralized (hello alys hiiii i'm such a fan).
i can speculate on jace's mental state and say that while he would not shut himself out like baby aegon did, he wouldn't be the same at all. his drive to be the best version of himself would still be there of course, this is what will make him push himself to take control of the situation. but at the same time, i don't think he will want to be as much as a people pleaser as he is in canon. people will be vying for his favor, for baby aegon's hand, for rhaena's but to me, he will make the family close into themselves. during the war he learned to take command of his people, he has the presence and the confidence to say no now, he also has the crown and the symbols. that's half the battle done.
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Actually final note on No Mercy Chara characterization. There is exactly one person that they are passive aggressive and judging with.
You took more candy. How disgusting..
You took another piece. You feel like the scum of the earth...
Look at what you've done.
You feel like you're going to have a bad time.
You felt your sins crawling on your back.
You felt your sins weighing on your neck.
There is a reason you continue to recreate this world. There is a reason you continue to destroy it. You. You are wracked with a perverted sentimentality.
They’re pretty judgey with Frisk/the Player, and can occasionally say things which can be read as insults. But also interestingly, even this is pretty rare, happening only three times I can remember as being specifically ‘things like insults’, and is mostly discussing how ‘you’ supposedly feel. Maybe it’s revealing of their own personality and tendency of being critical, perhaps Frisk really does feel bad over the spilled candy and the Sans fight. (Despite willingly going through with said Sans fight regardless.)
But people that others seem to believe Chara would be most critical or hateful towards, or depict them as having strong feelings towards, Toriel, Sans, Asgore, Flowey... they really have nothing to say to them. No infamous ‘Asriel you traitor, you should have followed the plan’ that I see in literally every fanfic where Chara returns. They have absolutely no narration and nothing at all to say when ripping him to shreds. Just actions. Just another enemy to be beaten.
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Was having thoughts earlier about how many people the Inquisitor meets who have direct connections with the HoF (Leliana, the Warden contact potentially, Morrigan) and had a moment realizing my boy Lorenn probably has no fucking idea who Loghain is.
Hawke's like "We need to go chat with Loghain" and Lorenn's like "sure okay" and it's not until halfway through Crestwood that one of his companions, probably Blackwall for maximum hilarity, is like, "Excuse me Inquisitor, did Hawke say Loghain? As in the Hero of River Dane? As in the traitor of Ostagar, the man who left King Cailan to die and started the Fereldan Civil War, who the Hero of Ferelden defeated in one-on-one combat and then conscripted into the Wardens? That Loghain??"
Lorenn: "..."
Blackwall: "Not the sort of story that interests the Dalish I'm guessing"
Lorenn: "No not really"
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Torn between wondering if the series as a YA dystopia wrote the characters in a way to have the readers follow their perspective in a black and white view of morality and being ultimately in the right, thus intentionally sweeping a lot of the concerning points they make under the carpet and have the readers digest their POVs fully when it's layered with tons of fatphobia and ableism (among other things)
Or you're actually supposed to realize "woah these kids are fucked up and assholes, and being raised as child soldiers did not help that one bit" and the story is not a guidebook on how to perceive moral behavior but is meant to show complicated terrible people in a complicated terrible world fighting complicated terrible enemies as a result of corrupt leaders and a highly militarized society's legacy bleeding into the horrors these characters face now
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