#you win some you lose some i guess. cool job i actually like but with stupid fucking customers who make me want to MURDER
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it's got to be time travel | charles leclerc social media au
pairing: charles leclerc x fem footballer!reader
face claim: jessie fleming (i'm a chelsea fan and i'm sad she left :()
they've got all the time in the world for each other, don't ask them where they got that time from though
note: we're also gonna pretend that the women's football and f1 seasons line up here lol
MASTERLIST | TIP JAR | MY SMALL BUSINESS
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charles_leclerc: last sunday lunch before we both have to go back to work :(
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user1: ffs why do their ACTUAL jobs have to get in the way of my regularly scheduled charles x y/n content???
user2: i personally think that the fia should just give charles the championship and y/n the WSL title so they can just chill together :)
maxverstappen1: not on my watch
charles_leclerc: you don't even follow me? get out of my comments
maxverstappen1: you can't just get given the championship because you have attachment issues WE ALL HAVE ATTACHMENT ISSUES
charles_leclerc: me i get, but y/n doesn't deserve to win?
maxverstappen1: i never said that. y/n is girlboss slay queen
yourusername: too right i am
charles_leclerc: why are you peace and love with her and not me?
maxverstappen1: she's cool, you aren't
yourusername: can't disagree with that babe soz
user3: i have a feeling that these spats might get worse the longer charles is separated from y/n
user4: waa waa we're all sad their being separated but all i'm thinking is UP THE CHELS
user5: i need the treble right fucking now, a charles championship would be a bonus i guess
lewishamilton: will i get a formal introduction to y/n before we're teammates?
yourusername: YES, YES YOU WILL
charles_leclerc: i guess that answers that
lewishamilton: don't hate the player, hate the game
yourusername: i better see your ass at kingsmeadow at some point, it's fun, even if others think they're too good for it
lewishamilton: i'll be there 🫡
user7: can 2025 come quick.... PLEASE
user8: lol does this mean that charles has offered to take carlos to a game but he didn't go?
user9: ugh what a bore
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yourusername: excited for the new season back with the girlypops :))))))
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user10: treble or nothing I BEG
user11: it's their year for the champions league i've seen the script
alexalbon: no seatbelt ? way to set dangerous examples to your young audience
yourusername: if you're not careful i'm gonna teach my audience how to put their foot up the ass of those annoying her
alexalbon: ugh i hope you lose :P
yourusername: i don't have to hope, i know your ass ain't gonna be in q3
alexalbon: that's TOO far @charles_leclerc does our years of friendship mean nothing?
charles_leclerc: sorry buddy, i am y/n stan first, human being second
yourusername: as he should.
user12: so like... will we see charles in a y/n jersey again in the paddock?
user13: @ferrari stop being so annoying and let him wear what he wants
user14: i think i tasted paradise when they actually let him wear a y/n canada jersey in montreal
charles_leclerc: never seen someone make blue look so good
maxverstappen1: i'm right here?
sebastianvettel: did the homoeroticism of our challenge videos mean nothing?
danielricciardo: do not lie to yourself
yourusername: sorry sluts, you wish you looked this good
charles_leclerc: they'll never be you 🫶🏻
user15: i know the cfcw admin and pr department have a heart attack every time y/n posts
user16: the way she's out here calling three f1 drivers sluts with no repercussions
yourusername: can't be told off for telling the TRUTH
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f1: couple goals! charles leclerc takes pole in bahrain while his girlfriend, y/n y/ln, scored the winner for chelsea women!
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user19: okay but i've never been in a relationship and am currently rotting on my couch... so who is the real winner here x
yourusername: my handsome boy is so talented :3
charles_leclerc: not as talented as you, pretty girl
yourusername: nuh uh at least my team is competent
charles_leclerc: errrrr
samkerr20: i think you broke him lol
yourusername: sometimes i think he's more loyal to ferrari than me
charles_leclerc: no!
scuderiaferrari: huh?
charles_leclerc: wait...
yourusername: i see :(
charles_leclerc: i'm LOGGING OUT
user20: charles is so lover boy stuck in his tortured poets department (ferrari formula one team)
user21: the way he's probably yelling down the phone to y/n about how much he loves her right now
samkerr20: he is and it's so loud the whole locker room can hear it
yourusername: but he's so sweet isn't he
niamhcharles17: i guess?
alexalbon: we heard it from his side... barf
yourusername: @lilymunhe are you being starved of romance?
lilymunhe: compared to you and charles YES
alexalbon: ummmm get out of my business y/ln
yourusername: you're ALWAYS in my business buster 🤨
alexalbon: NO! i am just passing down the ancient skill of communication?
yourusername: you're such a gossip girl alex
user21: i know they bicker like siblings, but i know deep down that there have been double dates
charles_leclerc: yes, but y/n and i are much better (no offence lily)
yourusername: did you log back in to restart the argument with alex
charles_leclerc: yes!
alexalbon: boo you whore
yourusername: don't talk to him like that 🤨
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samkerr20: forced to hang out with the straights... they're actually kind of cute
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user22: you know the couple has to be real cute when even the gays think they're cute
user23: no one can resist the charms of y/n and charles
yourusername: these photos make me think that we are cuter
samkerr20: we are but i didn't want to hurt charles' feelings
charles_leclerc: consider them hurt
samkerr20: boo hoo
yourusername: noooooo i love you xxx
charles_leclerc: hehehehehehehe i love you too xxx
yourusername: i miss you, hurry up and win and come home to me
charles_leclerc: i'm doing my best :(
yourusername: you are the bestest boy
samkerr20: STOP THAT MAKES HIM SOUND LIKE A DOG
oscarpiastri: when will australians stop being victims of this relationship
danielricciardo: this is your first season dealing with them properly, buckle up
oscarpiastri: i'm in a relationship but they make me feel so lonely
maxverstappen1: you get used to it after a while
yourusername: we're right here
landonorris: let us commiserate in peace
charles_leclerc: ??? do you or do you not get free football tickets out of it?
landonorris: yeha but when we go we just have to watch you cry when y/n inevitably wins another trophy
charles_leclerc: I'M PROUD OF HER AND YOU WON'T SHAME ME FOR THAT
user24: chelsea women players must be so confused when these grown men start arguments in the comments of THEIR posts
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yourusername: weekend off... you know what that means
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user25: i know there's over 1.5 million likes but how can i gatekeep y/n?
user26: for real
charles_leclerc: the best weekends are with you here
yourusername: i may have a love/hate relationship with this team, but the catering is banging (i may have to move to italy)
chelseafcw: NO MENTIONS OF LEAVING CHELSEA, NOT EVEN A JOKE - NOTHING!
yourusername: okay, sorry guys (the pasta was so good though)
charles_leclerc: not even for me?
chelseafcw: DEFINITELY NOT FOR YOU, WATCH OUT OR WE'LL BLACKLIST YOU FROM KINGSMEADOW
yourusername: okay, let's pedal this back. i'm not leaving london and we all still love charles, right admin?
chelseafcw: .... yes
user27: when you're in a who has attachment issues with y/n y/ln and your competition is the chelseafcw admin and charles leclerc
user28: no point even showing up
maxverstappen1: i for one am glad when y/n is in the paddock because it means i can sneak in without the cameras seeing me
yourusername: i am a woman of the people
charles_leclerc: she's such a star, everyone wants to see her
maxverstappen1: yeah i'll give you that
yourusername: we're also hot
charles_leclerc: don't you dare respond to that one max
maxverstappen1: 🫡🫡🫡
user29: patiently waiting for the hq photos of them 😚
user30: gonna print them out and put them in my heart locket
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charles_leclerc: babe is top of the league (and top scorer)
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user33: get yourself a guy who flexes your achievements as much as charles does
user34: setting the example tbf
yourusername: my lucky charm, that hat-trick was for you xx
charles_leclerc: would mean more if you didn't score them every week 😭
yourusername: they hate to see a girlboss winning
charles_leclerc: wanna share some wins with me?
yourusername: you're doing great this season babe, not your fault that nasa decided to rebrand to red bull racing
redbullracing: adrian says thanks 😊
charles_leclerc: DON'T SAY IT Y/N
yourusername: you don't even know what i was going to say
charles_leclerc: ....
yourusername: @redbullracing you got a seat???
charles_leclerc: Y/N!!!!!!!!!!
yourusername: whoops
user35: y/n really out here trying to get charles that damn seat
yourusername: i'll stop when the horse team makes a championship worthy car that they don't break halfway through the season...
user36: add ferrari to the group of people who shudder in fear when y/n posts
chelseafcw: fine... we hope you enjoyed (no more italy jokes)
charles_leclerc: i had a great time, i always do when i watch y/n do what she loves (slay)
yourusername: awwwwwwwwww i love you charlie
chelseafcw: okay no need to make admin feel that lonely, damn
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yourusername: finishing my best ever season with a big trophy haul :) now time to support my trophy husband in his day job
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user41: she really be out here doing it all
user42: i need her to win the Ballon d'Or Féminin PLEASE IT IS TIME
user43: with charles in attendance, first couples red carpet appearance YES, YES RUN IT TO ME PLEASE
charles_leclerc: unbelievably proud of you, mon amour, constantly inspired by you
yourusername: i love you so much, thank you for being there to support me through it all
charles_leclerc: it's the biggest pleasure in the world
yourusername: i'm all out of winning this season, your turn next weekend?
charles_leclerc: for you, i'll do anything
user44: PLEASE I NEED HIM TO WIN GOOD PLEASE
alexalbon: congrats i guess, you're pretty good
yourusername: thanks, since my boyf is so supportive, it's only natural that you have to try and humble me at every turn
alexalbon: you're more famous than us now, we need to keep you grounded
lilymunhe: don't worry y/n he cried nearly just as much as charles when you won the WSL
yourusername: I KNEW IT
charles_leclerc: i still cried more
alexalbon: it's not a competition bro, we all know you're both helplessly in love
yourusername: that we are
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charles_leclerc: happiest when i'm with you (and whoever has decided to tag along), oh and winning a race helps as well i guess
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user45: CHARLES WIN I REPEAT A CHARLES WIN WE WON?
user46: the way y/n went just as mental as us, her and zecira jumping around the garage (and starting the champagne shower after the podium)
user47: really proving that y/n and charles really are each other's biggest fans
user48: thank the lord the WSL season finished when it did so y/n could be there for this win
user49: y/n would've ran to austria to be there i'm sure
yourusername: you know it 🫡
maxverstappen1: had to let you win so you could look cool in front of your infinitely cooler girlfriend
charles_leclerc: not even gonna bite, i'm too happy to care
yourusername: i'll bite - HIS TALENTED BEHIND SCHOOLED YOUR ASS
maxverstappen1: but i called you cool?
yourusername: i'll accept the compliment now, i had to defend charles' honour first
charles_leclerc: heheheehe i'm blushing
maxverstappen1: gross
user50: i need y/n to permanently be in the ferrari garage, they were on it today (i think out of fear)
landonorris: damn i thought i thirdwheeling lestappen was bad, but y/n and charles is a different beast
yourusername: we're both athletes, need to savour the time we have together when we can
charles_leclerc: sorry not sorry you'll get it when you're in love
landonorris: .... i guess i'll die then
fin.
note: i hope you enjoyed !!!! one last WIP to go and good lord the writers block is kicking my ass. but f1 being back should help!!! + f1 academy, much enjoyed it so far.
#f1 imagine#f1 x reader#f1 instagram au#f1 x you#f1#f1 social media au#charles leclerc imagine#charles leclerc x reader#charles leclerc x female reader#charles leclerc x you#charles leclerc fanfic#charles leclerc#charles leclerc social media au
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luck magic, new leverage <3
(This uses worldbuilding I wrote in an original ficlet years ago, so if you like, you can check that out right HERE.)
Parker is Lucky but not lucky, a difference she still doesn’t understand sometimes. It seems stupid that the Luck she knows, the odds she plays (but not too much, because cheating makes everything less fun), aren’t the same thing as the kind of luck where good things happen to you without you having to change the odds.
There are a lot of thieves like her. The people that become Leverage, she knows them by reputation, because she hears the stories about the way events bend around them. She knows that Hardison has to try fewer passwords to get into a network than anybody else, that Sophie can always guess just who to be, that Eliot plays the odds about where a bullet will be and has watched him, with the right reason, walk through a field of them like he’s dancing. But they’re not lucky, like she’s not lucky: they lose people, screw up when they don’t know what odds they’re playing.
“Happy,” Eliot replies when she says so one night early on, face twisted like it is when she says something that isn’t normal even for people like them. “The word you’re looking for is happy.”
Parker scowls at him. “No, I mean lucky, because I mean whether things happen to make us happy or not is random. Or at least I never felt anyone playing the odds when bad things happened to me.”
“Nana always said chance and Luck aren’t the same thing,” says Hardison with a shrug. “Sometimes she said that Luck often comes to people life is hard on. I’m more focused on the future. I know how to play the odds these days.”
“Touch wood, man, that’s the kind of thing Lucky people say before they burn themselves out,” says Eliot.
Parker listens to them bicker, still undecided how she feels about it, but glad that for once she’s got other people around as Lucky as she is.
*
They don’t change each other’s odds. It’s a rule as hard and fast as “Don’t con your crew,” which means that sometimes Sophie ignores it, or Hardison pushes at the edge as a joke, but for the most part, they don’t do it, at least not on purpose.
A lot of Lucky people working close together, though, that tends to bend things. They don’t do it on purpose, but things start working out for them, when there’s no reason not to. Parker wins a box of chocolates in a random drawing without trying (not that she would have tried, she would have stolen a box and then left the payment later since it’s a small business and Eliot yells at her about that). Hardison orders groceries online and they accidentally put in twice the amount of orange soda. Eliot finds some weird hippie hair thing that makes his hair smell nice and does something he apparently likes at a farmer’s market. And it’s not isolated incidents, it’s just life: green lights and discounts and cool new safes in marks’ closets, all coming together without Parker making it.
Parker likes it, she kind of has to like it because it’s good, but it makes her nervous. She thinks it makes Eliot nervous too, but not as much Hardison. He’s always been a little luckier than they were, with Nana.
“I can’t decide if I like my Luck doing things without me wanting it to,” she tells Hardison and Eliot one day early in the time they’re in Portland. “I use it for jobs, and now all this is happening.”
“I like nice things happening,” says Hardison, rolling his eyes. “I don’t feel anyone tugging on the odds, so maybe it’s just chance actually working out for us for once.”
“But people say if a lot of Lucky people spend time together, odds turn in their favor.” Parker frowns, tries to find the words. They listen. They’re pretty good about listening, these days, waiting for her to figure out how to say what she needs to say. She’s lucky to have them, and not just Lucky. “If we split up, do things go back to being bad? I’d already be sad if we did, I don’t want to lose out on free chocolate too.”
Eliot grips her shoulder for a second before letting go, and Hardison offers his hand for her to hold. She takes it. “Nothing’s gonna split us up,” says Eliot. “Not for long. I’ll play whatever odds I have to, to make sure that happens.”
“What he said,” says Hardison.
It doesn’t quite fix this worry, but then again, a lot of the reasons Parker feels happy these days aren’t about chocolate or soda or hair care. They’re about her team. Knowing they’ll fight to get back to her helps.
*
When Hardison is gone, off on one of the jobs that only he can do, things always feel a little harder.
Which is stupid, Parker knows that. She and Eliot and Sophie are just as Lucky as ever. Harry’s a lot Luckier than any lawyer should be, and Breanna wouldn’t have survived a week in Hardison’s job if she weren’t as Lucky as he is. So it’s the same amount of Luck around, but it still feels like things aren’t easy, and she doesn’t know how much of that is missing him and how much of it is that her favorite cereal company goes out of business.
“Damn it,” Eliot says, exhausted, coming back home after a job, the last one since they all take separate flights. “Every leg of that trip got delayed.”
“You didn’t try to change the odds?”
“Couldn’t pull them enough without tipping someone off.”
She frowns. “That kind of thing wouldn’t happen with Hardison around.”
“No, but I wasn’t going to call him in space just to make him fiddle around with the control towers.”
“No, I mean—if he were on this job, it wouldn’t have happened. He wouldn’t have had to fix it.”
Eliot stares at her for a second, and then he sighs. “Nobody can be lucky all the time. You think I didn’t get delayed flights when he was still around? We just notice the bad luck more without him around, that’s all.”
“You said,” she says, and stops, tries to figure it out. “You said one time that the kind of luck that isn’t Luck is just happiness. You mean like that?”
His face softens into a smile. “Yeah, Parker. I know better what you meant these days, but I still think it’s about what we notice. Easy to notice things going wrong without Hardison going around. And you know he plays the odds to make things a little easier on us sometimes, even when it’s risky. Want to give him a call, let him know I’m home safe? What are the odds he’s free right now?”
“Pretty low,” says Parker, and puts her arm around his shoulders while she changes them.
#anonymous#answered asks#sometimes i write stories#down to three prompts#phew!#all those tech issues really threw me off my groove
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some thoughts about 'kayfabe compliance'
i don't have 'moral issues' with RPF but i do engage with it on quite a different level to regular fanfiction (except john and paul they're a secret third thing to me but i digress). it's hard to fully put my finger on what's different about it, maybe there's a much stronger sense of thinking "this isn't real" the whole time because the disconnect between actual full people ive become parasocial with and the AO3 interface with fanfic tropes on it is much greater. anyway, it's a whole different mode of engagement is the point, so reading wrestling fic has a tendency to be a VERY whiplash inducing experience, due to how fast and loose one can play when it comes to what is the text we are writing fanfiction about here. cue a ramble
the basic divide is kayfabe vs shoot, where a fic is either about the fictional wrestling personas in their storyline, as if wrestling is just a very strangely set up long form soap opera (which it is), or it's RPF about the wrestlers themselves, and will reference their fictional personas as just that, fictional. both are fine and chill, i personally vastly prefer the former not just because it's less uncomfortable but also because, well, that's where all the conflict and angst is and I did sort of come here for that. but the existence of the second option is so interesting, because it's not actually a basic divide, it's a bizarre spectrum and nothing is certain. using sami and kevin as the illustrative example:
the very fact that throughout a 'shoot' fic, sami will still be called, well, sami. if he's called his real name you know you're in full speed ahead RPF mode, but using 'sami' places a layer of fictionality onto the whole thing, as if this is still a made up story about wrestling, it's just a story about wrestlers making up stories. i've never read any drag queen fanfic but i'd guess this is the same effect as using the drag names and writing about their reality TV personas which are varying degrees of authentic, but all basically created for audience entertainment, so is it even 'real people' fanfiction?
stories about el generico where el generico is sami in a mask, but wrestling is real. so he really loses/wins matches, he really gets betrayed and hurt by kevin, but the gimmick is kayfabe, meaning kayfabe also exists but then what is real and what's acting doe sit matter
this is a small thing but it speaks to the whole mindfuck, which is a fic in which kayfabe doesn't exist, everything wrestlers experience happened for real, but wrestling jargon keeps appearing like 'mark', 'bump' and most maddeningly of all 'jobber'! who's jobbing! they're just losing fights!
and then there's just the level at which the writer simply does not give a fuck about any supposed 'rules' and just picks and chooses what's kayfabed and what's not. case in point, a fic i read last night which started as a clear shoot/rpf fic - kevin and sami in the aftermath of Battleground, congratulating each other on putting on such a banger and chilling out in the locker room. only for the fic to reveal half way through that kevin's betrayal at r evolution was real he and sami just made up and i guess decided to keep the feud going for TV. sami went into his pre planned semi choreographed match with his best friend to conclude the story that began with said friend nearly breaking his back for real.
and all that is very cool, but the thing is it means such a different thing to me when i perceive something as entirely fictional vs actual feelings and events with the real person who made that fictional thing. i want the real person to be happy. i want an uncomplicated unmessy parasocial relationship there. i want the fictional character tormented in agony, and i usually specifically seek this out in fic. so when i enter a story, and it's not clear from the get go if im reading about fictional characters who caused each other terrible pain, fictionalised versions of real people who get along very well as far as we know and who are untouched by that pain, or some strange mixing and matching of the two, there's a real tension there as my brain tries to recalibrate what kind of narrative engagement is about to occur
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What are your top 5 Ougi scenes/appearances?
good ask to send me than,k you
starting from 5 well i guess i dont really have like a strict order except for maybe the top one i dont know i dont know i love all of them
actually im just gonna do it in chrono order
um spoilers of course dont read this if u havent finished the whole anime (the whole anime!) there will be screencaps...
okay if im going chronoogically i must give my hat to owarimonogtari part 1. wait FUCK theres so many scenes in that shit.......... im gonna be running out of space damnit.... well to summarize it BRIEFLY... (how the fuck do you even summarize it briefly my feelings are large and want to burst out of my chest)... ougis sinister leading araragi down dark paths and poking at his past and knowing the deal but playing-dumbery and antics are just amazing. and shes so cool as she does it how did she get to be that cool! evil and cool.... thats the summary but the scene i would want to talk about is of course the showdown with hanekawa (the first one i guess). uh bc its like really funny? the showdown is great its such a fun buildup of tension and they're like passive-aggressive/plain-aggressive-but-still-loosely-following-social-boundaries trying fighting each other... its great. i think in the light novels when hanekawa says 'but i would have done a better job' ougis smile freezes. you can hear the glass break. you can just hear her in her head shes going like ".......................bitch,? so that's how you wanna play it?" i wish that got animated sometimes. and also of course. it ends how it ends.
its an incredible moment because literally the moment she says this you're like ah. i see. so ougi loses. LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
LIKE GG NO RE 😭😭😭😭😭😭 SORRY OUGI YOU LOST.... DONMAI ITS OK DONT WORRY ABOUT IT.
YOU DONT EVEN HAVE TO SEE ANYTHING AFTER ITS LIKE AH. GOTCHA. i was rooting for her to win when i was watching but... this was just so funny. the best way for things to have gone i think.
its also so good how she stands there after like. fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.......... usually ougi is the one doing things to people and its funny but this is also just so hilarious its done so well.
i also want to talk about otori, because ougi in otori is very cool. my first time watching otori i was very in tune with nadeko so hearing ougi do a kinda takedown of her was a very interesting experience for me. she was very sinister and severe and foreboding...... very fun. and of course when it turns out she's been tugging at the strings..... heeheehee THATS SO COOL. i mean looking at these scenes like some of these shots are so cool.
^ the face of someone so evil......
ok going later
i never see people talking about this one but the scene in hitagi rendevous in owari ge that happens on the second episode after the ending is like. oogh. its like the big instance before the finale proper in ougi dark where the show starts fucking slapping you in the face screaming "PAY ATTENTION THERE'S SOMETHING IMPORTANT HAPPENING HERE"
like this shot this FUCKING SHOT. is it just me? is it just me am i the only one who feels acute pain at this? there's something about it thats just so............... like somethings wrong. like thats what i feel like something is wrong and im concerned for this person you feel me?
shes so tired trying to get his attention and do her job and all that shes pressing the doorbell laying down... and then she sees him and goes like 'im exhausted' and just keeps girlbossing like. and like asks araragi (from her perspective) not to kill her and hes just like no and shes just like damn that sucks oh well lol. like imagine being alive for 6 months having no home (shes laying on the god damn nameplate of his house augh...) and knowing full well you're about to die, the things youre seeing now will be some of the last things you ever experience before your consciousness is gone forever (bc she isnt going to hell shes being erased). that's so cool and awesome (horrifying). anyway ougi doesnt care shes got a job to do X) (shes so insane i love her)
also that home thing and the tiredness thing is one of the big things i wrote ougi stay about so ill just take the chance to plug it if ur still reading this go read my fic! i like it a lot i think its nice. its mostly funny but it also talks about this stuff too a bit. go read it
ok next.
dont know whether to count the different parts of this scene as separate or not but i think it shouldnt be separated bc its all important to the scene and that is OF COURSE: ougi dark
starting with ougi's convo with tsukihi (the build up… it's oddly calm so you feel somewhat reassured but you KNOW something's going to happen… the buildup of tension starts here and keeps rising). the contents of that conversation, near the end are like, really cool things to be included because up until that point we still dont have SO much insight as to who ougi is but she opens up a bit to tsukihi here and its kind of a paradigm shift to see.
there's something so poignant about this fraught mood...
such an ougi way of talking about one's feelings about oneself...
at least for me when i was watching i was already like, kinda rooting for ougi bc i wanted bad things to happen to araragi (lol) but also like. ougis just so insanely entertaining and fun that like, uh obviously i would root for her here. so when this fun silly funny little fun character starts bustin out the:
its like woah wait huh back up hold on a second there. i care you>???????
like literally the whole confrontation with ougi and araragi it is just like oh no since when did i care about this character so much oh no oh god oh fuck...
like how come they gotta hit me with all these gut punches what did i do to deserve this
like whats so cool about it is with how its directed and the score (and the voice acting!! the seiyuu did an INCREDIBLE job) and everything you can tell shes scared but like again shes actually insane so she's just gonna be like yeah this is the right way for things to happen
(it seems a lot like she did all this wanting the outcome of her losing to araragi, at least to me. hanekawa also says so in the commentary tracks of ougi dark. so thats another layer. theres so many layers... i dont know how many of these layers people pick up on but by golly do i pick up on them)
and of course he saves her (imagine if he didnt? id kill him. WAIT ACTUALLY THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE LIKE "ARARAGI SHOULDNT HAVE SAVED HER" NEVER GO ON THE REDDIT DISCORD SERVER FOR MONOGATARI PEOPLE ACTUALLY THINK THIS WAY IM LITERALLY GOING TO KILL THEM ITS SO. ok i wont talk about it), and she gets mad and its like i KNEW you were putting up a bold front you had emotions this whole time and then its like. oh you had emotions this whole time and you were totally aware of everything and just kinda had to deal with it thats kinda fucked up (i think a lot about how being an oddity born of self-criticism necessarily means you have to be self-aware and how that leads to ougi being a kind of exceptional type of oddity and like how it ties into identity and like... all that stuff). but the emotional breakdown/outburst is so good... augggghhghhh its so good 😭😭😭
(like i think sometimes about how if they had done this wrong, it would feel out of place for ougis generally not-emotion-showing character/not emotional in general character, but they did it so well... its so good)
and of COURSE to cap off this perfect beautiful wonderful scene we get THE GWEH AKA THE PEAK OF FICTION. IT DOESNT GET BETTER THAN THIS. NO IM NOT JOKING. LITERALLY WHEN I SAW THIS I HAD AN EPIPHANY. NOT JUST BECAUSE ITS ADORABLE BUT BECAUSE ITS LIKE HOLY SHIT INTUITIVELY A PART OF ME UNDERSTANDS. THIS *IS* **THE** BEST CHARACTER. and i went to go pace around my room being hype about it. im not joking really bc the novel talks about it being like "an utterly unattractive true-to-life" groan or something that proves she has "substance" which is like... yeah! she's her own person! not just made of lies or w/e!! the gweh actually ties everything together in such a perfect way and i am physically incapable of remaining in bad mood after i see it. i saw it the first time and i was like :O -> :) -> :DDDDDDDDDD and that hasn't changed since it will always put a smile on my face 😌
also also ougi in zoku owari is incredible too so good. the TEEHEE THE TEEHEE IS SO AMAZING. like YEAH!!!! YOURE A LITTLE ROTTEN PRANKSTER TEEHEE!!!!!! YEAH!!!! TRICKSTER TIME TIME TO BE TRICKY A TRICKY LITTLE TRICKSTER YEAH!!!!!!!!!!! and we get more classic ougi exposition/explanation..... havent talked about this as much but their ideas are so interesting.... theyre so interesting and cool i would pay to hear them share ideas about things.............. anyway one other thing i really appreciate about this scene is the shared intimacy between ougi and araragi. it feels more personal yk. this sorta comfortable, natural, thoughtless intimacy is something i absolutely adore about their dynamic but it basically only happens right here in zoku owari, and not even so much in the light novel version. its interesting... i want to write about it. im GOING to write about it mark my words
also honorable mention to ougi in hanamonogatari. theres nothing like big enough about these scenes to mention in comparison with the rest of them bc theyre so short but. BOY OUGI YEAHHHHHHHHHHH HES TRANS WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO i saw that and i was like >:) yeah kanbaru wym hes been a boy this whole time >:)))) don't misgender him god...... >:)))))))))))))
(AND HE LOOKS SO COOL THEY ANIMATED HIM SO COOL BC HES IN BOYMODE HES SUCH A BOY FUCK YEAH)
also fuck i didnt talk about the whole planetarium dream scene. that was also good.
ummm yeah i could just talk about this forever and keep talking about scenes and stuff but ill leave it here bc u said 5 and ive already technically named like 7 at least so. yeah. but i dont really have like a ranking order necessarily, except for ougi dark bc its just so so so SO good.
thank you for enabling my derangement ive been writing this since u sent it to me im so ougipilled right now you wouldnt even believe. im ougi wired.
#slamming the table only a little bit#im not insane i promise#ougiposting#monogatari#spoilers#oshino ougi#i did actually scream though#hope no one heard that#the best part is that i always have different things to say at different points in time#these are like my favorite scenes but each time i look at them i can come out with a different takeaway#so good..............#i should write an ougi manifesto#an ougifesto#hehe that sounds like a festival#i should do that too#idk what id put in it#probably a lot of this#owarimonogatari#owarimonogatari ge#otorimonogatari#hanamonogatari#zoku owarimonogatari#god looking back on what ive written here it doesnt even feel like enough to express how i feel about it all...... its all so . jrgwlkjgalg#anyway yeah cool woo whee ougi yahoo yeah wa ha ha
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It would be so easy to win at morality. All I would have to do is empty out my savings account and send $ to givedirectly (it would take a few days bc of transaction limits) then wander around aimlessly fasting until until I died. It wouldn't take long - 3 weeks without food is enough to die, probably less if I walk a long distance every day. Yet I don't. I'm not afraid of hurting my loved ones and I don't want to live. Yet I'm still posting instead of winning. Why is this?
well. okay so if we are adopting this stance, and to be clear i dont endorse adopting this stance, 1) unless you have a LOT of money (like, thru inheritance or something) and very little earning potential, you could probably net donate more money by staying alive, having a job, and spending as little as possible on yourself and donating the rest to givedirectly or whatever. which is actually really hard! part of why winning at morality is hard, 2) wandering around fasting aimlessly for weeks would be a crazy way to kill yourself. good chance you would get forcibly institutionalized. 3) your happiness (and that of your loved ones!) goes into the great moral integral in the sky! if you make them sad, or yourself sad, by your choices, that's bad to the calculator! ergo, i think its pretty unlikely killing yourself would be winning at morality!
i mean, to be clear, there are lots of reasons you shouldnt kill yourself. but "killing myself would be the most moral option" is a thought ive often had myself (especially when i was like 14), and man it just does not make any sense in any non-stupid moral system. its trying to justify your desire to kill yourself with ethics. if youre gonna be suicidal, say it from your chest, yknow. anyway i always feel like such a square encouraging people not to kill themselves but man. are you on antidepressants? antidepressants might be placebo but they made me personally way less into wanting to kill myself. if you are, have they done the wacky treatments? go for the wacky treatments. electroconvulsive works, its crazy that it works. but it does. anyway if youve done all that idk, move to another country, join a convent, write an album of shitty songs
the best anti-suicide advice is ive heard is that if you want to kill yourself, do something crazy instead. its not like you have anything to lose. and i think what you will realize, or what i realized, is that its not that i wanted to kill myself, i just wanted to be happy. which is less cool seeming than wanting to kill yourself unfortunately. but anyway. uh. personally i cannot reccommend eating a bunch of delicious food enough. worst case you get fat i guess. food is so good and delicious food can be very cheap. get some fast food you really like. eat candy, eat chocolate, eat cake. get a little pleasure in. speaking of i need to eat something.
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Burrow’s End Episode Six Reactions! (And AP!)
Allow me to preface this by saying that my computer broke this week, I am doing all my schoolwork and real job work on my cellphone right now, and the following is transcribed from the reactions I wrote down in a real physical notebook while watching the episode on my phone.
If you’re wondering how I wrote emojis in my notebook. The small drawings are very bad. Onwards!
BUT SHE’S DEAD 💀
Some sort of mutation going on w/the giant thing?
Diversity Win! The threatening First Stoat uses they/them pronouns!
Bennett :D
She does tai chi 😎
Oh the twins! (So fun bc one of the main groups in my current home game is Also called the Twins)
Is this a dept head meeting or smth?
That’s. Creepy.
Ok.
OOP-
Blow up his spot lmaooo
I’m living for Brennan’s reality check analogies
Human ish teeth?
Erika Ishii I love you ❤️
Aabria the character voice you are doing for Kiran is Hot.
I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE???
I need Bennett to not be a bad guy ok? I need it.
What are you saying man
Brennan’s just Dying
That was pure Erika oh my god
Oh she’s full of it alright!
(‘Keep going’) oh Izzy <3
Y’know what if I was on the team to renter a nuclear power plant that had a reactor failure and I saw thousands of militant stoats I think I would just leave. Let them have it.
On the what, Ava?
Yeah no especially if those stoats were using the fucking nuclear power?? I’d just leave.
At least she remembers their hallway is blue.
I’m curious if everyone switching so quickly from calling it Blue to Light is a DnD/Improv/Adaptation thing or a characters assimilating thing? Maybe both? Maybe it’s conscious maybe not?
I’m still thinking about how smooth Aabria’s “Weap-Technology” was when introducing the departments
He’s not asking you to run. He’s asking you to stay.
I’m glad Aabria keeps pushing back when they read negative or nefarious intentions into things that one the face of it truly are just typical to this kind of situation and society
The family vibes are So correct.
Horrible. I hated that.
The most it’s possible to be.
Yeah, okay.
KIDS.
Oh god. Oh no.
Good GOD Tula
The SIDE EYE on that Jesus
Muahahahaha
Oh NO.
That went on for so long
I am Unnerved.
Hell Yes babe
GET HIS ASS I GUESS???
They’re like teenagers now right?
Well That was intense!
The casualness in Aabria’s asking for the stealth check while taking a sip. She does not give a fuck and I love her for it.
Check it out!
Do we not get to find out what happened to Ava with the Garage?
Oh that’s So creepy
MMHMM
I love Ava’s refusal to learn
YES THIEVES’ CANT MY BELOVED THIEVES’ CANT <3
I think what she said was “please help.” Which is different.
SIOBHAN.
Oh that’s gonna be merch.
The crack of noon is so true
THE COPPER PUN NICE ONE AABRIA
Ohohohohoho. The Dictator. Lovely.
🎶don’t be suspicious, don’t be suspicious🎶
Oh my GOD
Brennan of all people saying finally some action on this goddamn show
Also Brennan’s reactions to Izzy’s reactions… so funny to watch the face journeys happening at the table rn.
Love that for them
OH
A population support state 😭
Oh god oh fuck
MAP???
Oh holy fucking shit
I can’t wait to rewatch this on my computer so I can actually see and appreciate the detail. Oh my god.
Ooh the puzzle of it all is intriguing
“I’m gonna kill him.”
Jabroni <3
OOF.
Oh my god <3
That was really cool Brennan.
Ooh just noticed the dome!
Hey Brennan? That was really cool.
Everyone’s got Thoughts.
Oh yeah jump into the nuclear juice. Great.
Ava.
YES
Awwww
PUZZLE
Oh no
I need to get the build details of this map
Oh. My god.
HE WAS THERE THE WHOLE TIME
Knight to C4 😭
That’s a fucking human skull.
Oh what does That mean
Huzzah.
(Most dejected/exhausted huzzah of all time)
God the comedy we do get in this season is so so gooOH
Not the wisdom saves 😭
Izzy.
Sometimes the dice fell a STORY.
Yeah okay
Oh god
Oh Jasper
Oh the stress is insane. Losing Jaysohn would break this family.
This can’t be the end of the episode?
Oh ok
OH FOR FUCKS SAKE
I love when DMs get to play DnD
DAD ARM
Nice catch!
OH I did not register that that’s the fucking radiation hazard symbol
Everyone at that table is so close to tears
AVA AND THORNNNN
Thorn himself <3
DOME.
Oh FUCK.
Preview for next week reactions:
What the FUCK.
WOLF??
I love JWC oh my god.
Adventuring Party Reactions!
Oh they’re jokingly pissed at her lmao
Woooo chipotle
Erika <3
I gUeSs I MiSsEd HiM
Aabria.
Erika takes METHOD NOTES
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who went ‘diversity win!’
Brennan Lee “Animal Facts” Mulligan strikes again
Felt so happy about seeing the human skull.
Jasper that’s such a fascinating theory oh my god
The intense NY came out
Okay but after this season… CAN we get set tours?
Yeah I am so curious about the in-world justification for the giant stone puzzle on top of the reactor.
OKAY thank you Jasper and Aabria I am Also a big reactor in games and sometimes I worry about being disruptive
I wanna go back and figure out what noise he’s talking about
Voice actor things! (Happy SAG Deal day!!)
I love actors so much. They are all FRIENDS.
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Having looked them over, quick immediate thoughts:
Roxie rules. I kinda love her kit, I will likely pull for her on that kit alone.
Piers is…good. His problem is Electric is covered forever better than he could ever do and Sludge Bomb is bad. His kit is very nice but does not feel necessary. TM is also kinda butt, you want to use it twice for his stats but that’s Poison Zone utility. That he doesn’t typically use so oops. Same issue on Electric Terrain being first attack, but at least he just gets straight to attacking.
Lodge Gladion feels alright. Mini SS Dawn on the buff profile with Haze utility. Feels competent for his value.
Selene and Elio have the best debuffs of all Eevee Day Varieties, but are cursed with only single-target attacks and overpowered types that don’t need their help. Elio slightly helps SS Lusamine if you don’t have NC Bede I guess. Dark has little use for Selene with Akari being right there.
Ryuki’s the fuckin man. Tech/Strike dragon man with solid Fire backup and a really cool gimmick they let actually be good. If he’s got a paid track I’m in.
Penny has excellent traits in rebuff, debuff, and SMUN stacking. Penny also has lopsided defenses and shit HP so I am nervous about the Sylveon Curse.
I haven’t checked grid, maybe that changes things, but Elaine kinda sucks ass. There is like nothing here I can praise except +3 crit in one action. Her kit is too random, and the hit-reload structure of her Quick Attack has never once worked for anyone.
Legit think the Eevee kid has more interesting stuff going on. Unfortuitous Swift has Gauntlet merit, that’s Oak’s thing. Shame about the horrendous defensive profile but I’ll take it.
Red’s kit annoys me because it feels exactly like SS Leaf but targets debuffs in the base kit so better. No healing though so worse. I hate Red so fuck this in particular.
The eggmon Eevee are Tech, thank god. Some notable wins: NY Lisia finally has a Zone bot that doesn’t lose something due to her being physical! NC Marnie has someone for Dark that isn’t a waste of their talents! Sprigatito is already out of a job!
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Dominion preview
SANADA vs. Yota Tsuji - Sanada is making his second defence of the IWGP world title. This is Tsuji's first match in Japan since August 2021, when he graduated the NJPW dojo and went on excursion in the UK and Mexico. He returned last month to attack Sanada, putting himself in line for this title match.
To me the draw for this match is how unusual it is. Dominion is New Japan's #2 show of the year, so you'd expect two big names to headline. It's not unheard of for a returning young boy to challenge for a title in his first match back. But a match like that would generally only headline a lesser show, unless the defending champion has the clout to carry the show all on his own. Sanada, however, is still trying to establish his title run isn't a fluke, and that he actually belongs among New Japan's tippy-toppy guys. So this is quite an experiment they've got here.
I still don't have a good sense of Tsuji's post-excursion gimmick or personality, so it's hard to know what to expect. (For comparison, watching Tomoyuki Oka as a Young Lion could not possibly prepare you for his whole deal as Great-O-Khan.) I liked the vibe in his hype videos, about some kind of wolf kaiju arriving in Japan from space, and his outfit makes him look like a dinosaur man, which is cool. Hopefully he gets to showcase a lot of new shit to get us excited for what's next. But Tsuji is not Kazuchika Okada in 2012, and I don't think he's going to win the big one on his first try. Sanada has to retain the title.
Hiromu Takahashi vs. Master Wato - Just days ago Wato won the Best of the Super Jr. tournament to earn a shot at Hiromu's IWGP junior heavyweight title. Notably, Wato completed his victory by beating two guys--Mike Bailey and Titan--who bested Hiromu during the tournament. Oh and this show is in Wato's hometown.
So it seems like Wato is a shoo-in, until you factor in that it's Wato. He returned from excursion in 2020 with an inscrutable grandmaster gimmick and immediately struggled against low-ranking juniors like DOUKI and Yoshinobu Kanemaru. For three years he's been presented like a misfire who's squandering his potential. Even his junior tag title reign felt like Ryusuke Taguchi was doing charity work for him. In singles matches Wato is 0-2 against Hiromu; in fact, Hiromu is junior champion now because he pinned Wato in a four-way to capture the belt from Taiji Ishimori. During BOSJ this year English commentary buried him throughout the tournament.
In short, they've done a masterful job making it feel like Wato can't win the big one, even when the booking suggests that he has to. If he loses here, I don't think there's any coming back from that--he'll be the YOSHI-HASHI of the junior division, jobbing in tag matches for the next decade with a confused look on his face. If he wins, it'll be huge for him...but much like Sanada finally beating Okada, I'll keep wondering if they're really serious about not cutting him off at the knees again.
I'm in the tank for Hiromu, but under the circumstances I'd much rather see New Japan make a new junior star than leave everything as-is. The junior division was feeling pretty stagnant before BOSJ, and having some of the newer faces chasing Wato on top would be just what the doctor ordered. I gotta root for a title change.
Kazuchika Okada & Hiroshi Tanahashi & Tomohiro Ishii vs. Jon Moxley & Shota Uminio & Claudio Castagnoli - Okada's team captured the NEVER trios title on May 3, and Umino quickly challenged them on behalf of Moxley. The third challenger, Castagnoli, is Moxley's teammate from the Blackpool Combat Club in AEW. The BCC is fresh off a major victory in an eight-man brawl against the Elite on May 28, and I guess they're still out for blood. Kenny Omega has been teasing getting help against the BCC from a friend in Japan; this match could give Okada a reason to be that friend.
Newcomers might be confused that Shota is buddies with the BCC. Basically in 2019 Moxley beat the breaks off of him and then "adopted" him as his personal young boy. I assumed the Shooter would come out of excursion with a Mox-inspired mean guy gimmick, but instead Shota returned to New Japan in 2022 wearing white, with happy uplifting music, and handing toys out to children. But he and Mox are still tight and they like to beat ass together, so it's all good. I'm not sure if Umino is officially a member of the BCC but he might as well be.
I can't clearly see where any of these guys go after this match, whether the champs retain or not. The only direction that even sort of makes sense is: Mox's team wins, beats down Okada, Omega runs in to make the save, so at Forbidden Door it's Okada & The Elite vs. BCC & Umino in a ten-man tag. So I guess that's my prediction, let's see if it happens.
David Finlay vs. El Phantasmo - This is for Finlay's NEVER championship. Finlay took over Bullet Club a few months ago and ELP was never happy with it, so Finlay finally turfed him out of the group back in April. Phantasmo returned for revenge last month, moments after Finlay won the NEVER belt. I've never seen ELP perform except as a douchebag heel covered in Bullet Club gear, so his reinvention as an anti-Bullet Club babyface should be something to see. But yeah, Finlay is going to murder this poor man.
Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI vs. EVIL & Yujiro Takahashi vs. Great-O-Khan and Aaron Henare - This is a three-way match for two vacant titles, the IWGP heavyweight tag team championship and the STRONG tag team championship. Aussie Open--Mark Davis and Kyle Fletcher--had held both titles until Davis was injured. Originally this match was Davis-Fletcher vs. Goto-Yoshi vs. Evil-Yuj, for only the IWGP title. Then it became two-on-two for both sets of belts. Then Khan and Henare demanded to represent the United Empire in place of Davis and Fletcher.
I hate to say it but it feels like the strongest move right now is to put the belts on Evil and Yujiro. Then you get 3-6 months of babyface teams trying to overcome House of Torture shenanigans, which is a quick fix for losing whatever story they had in mind for Aussie Open. Hell, maybe they can book Evil and Yujiro vs. Jeff Jarrett and Jay Lethal at Forbidden Door. Man, I'm just full of terrible ideas in this paragraph.
Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Jeff Cobb - This is a rematch from May 3, when Cobb challenged for the NJPW World television title but the match went to a 15-minute time limit draw. Neither man was happy with that outcome and immediately agreed to run it back. The first match was great, but the pitch here is "what if we did that great match again but shorter?" Yeah, I'm not a fan of the 15-minute time limit stuff. Sabre should retain.
KUSHIDA & Kevin Knight vs. TJP & Francesco Akira - The Intergalactic Jet Setters (Kushida and Knight) won the IWGP junior tag team title from Catch 2/2 back in April, and this is the rematch. A month ago I thought Catch 2/2 would fall out of contention, but during BOSJ, TJP beat Kushida and Akira beat Knight, which made this match inevitable. Kushida finished BOSJ with a miserable 2-7 record, so unless they're really breaking this guy down for a storyline his team desperately needs a win. I think they'll get it.
Tetsuya Naito & Shingo Takagi & Titan & BUSHI vs. Taichi & TAKA Michinoku & DOUKI & Yoshinobu Kanemaru - Taichi's team are four of the guys in Just 5 Guys; the fifth guy, world champion Sanada, used to be in Naito's Los Ingobernables de Japon stable. The two groups have been fighting ever since. It's starting to seem like this will keep going until Naito challenges Sanada at the Tokyo Dome in January. For now, though, I don't expect anything important to come out of this match, so it probably doesn't matter who wins.
Will Ospreay vs. Lance Archer - This the final match in a four-man tournament to decide the next challenger for the IWGP United States title. Kenny Omega won that title from Ospreay back in January. I was at the last Ospreay-Archer match back in 2019, and it was an unexpected treat, so I'm looking forward to seeing them square off again. Personally I'd be cool with Archer winning and going on to face Omega, so either outcome here is fine with me. But it's pretty clear the plan is to book Omega-Ospreay II, probably at Forbidden Door.
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Okay, finished 3rd run of FE: 3 Hopes
And here are some thoughts ramblings. Spoilers ahoy for those who care! (fair warning, its a big post!)
After finishing all 3 paths at least once (Recruited byleth on my edelgarde and dimitri runs, but not on Claude’s), i can officially say that Shez and Arval are the weakest parts of the game. I know they’re needed to be the eyes for the player, but their narrative feels so unimportant, with little-to-no payoff either way you finish the lines, and shoe-horned in with a thin layer of Anime Protag. Probably wouldve been better if Shez was Just a Dude/Gal and they just ditched the whole Arval situation. The story probably would’ve been just as good without them completely, but i guess they needed their Anime Protag Transformation who was SO GOOD at what they do to make sure that the side you’re on wins. 🤷🏽♀️. Even the extra chapters felt like they existed solely so the house leaders can talk to each other.
Speaking of unimportant, i cant say im pleased with any of the endings. They left no closure, which i’m thinking is the point. The game seems to put so very little importance on “what ACTUALLY happens” and the narrative only functions as a stage for the characters to develop and interact, which i think is fine and works well for that. WHo wins the war? doesnt matter! Look at these CHARACTERS. But it misses out on a lot because there are no “endings” for the characters like in the first game.
For a lot of characters, the fact that the game’s focus is on the war, with no “school arc” at all does a lot of interesting things, for better or for worse. A lot of characters developed and evolve a certain way during their school arc, which has a LOT of focus for the first game and is also the arc they can develop a lot of key relationships. With that gone, they develop different ones, and evolve differently. The big focus is on “War actually sucks!” which i think they pull off well, and they do a much better job going into the politics of the individual kids’ families and the countries, which is a good tradeoff i think.
Characters like Sylvain (thank god they actually put EFFORT into his writing) and the boys trying to be knights really flourish from the focus on the war section. Petra also got a lot of cool focus too, as did the Ashen wolves. Others I feel got a lot less out of it, and some evolved in ways that are so different from how they did in the first game, it’s almost sad. Caspar is the main one im thinking of, as instead of breaking away from his family to roam during the war and before rejoining with Byleth, he remains loyal to the empire (which is a LOT more valid in this game, given how Edelgarde’s path is MUCH better written imo), and ends up like, proving himself to his father (nice!), or leaving the battlefield with a “Augh I’m Pathetic!!!” Because of this, his Good Boy™ traits are downplayed a LOT (especially since he doesnt have supports with Ashe). It really feels like the lack of inter-house relationships + Byleth robs him and some other characters (particularly the ones with very Curiosity driven narratives) of their development in the 1st game in favor of more relevant developments to the sudden war. A lot of the characters do allude to it pretty frequently about how things couldve been different, so the big changes def feel intentional, as this is a big exploration into a different timeline.
So all in all, the writing and development was enjoyable! (even if very sad for a good portion of the characters, but that’s the point). I still prefer Byleth’s Narrative, mostly cuz the magic of the setting (particularly in Claude’s path) is ruined by the lack of mystery solving that the 1st game does, and Shez and Arval are such piss poor replacements for them with their weak narratives that gave me nothing to chew on.
Some other notes:
-LAUGHING cuz Raphael loses his muscles when using the Warmaster model instead of his base model. WOW. TWINKED. it KEEPS HAPPENING.
-Linhardt is still funny as hell.
-when will Pegasi stop being sexist? (Ignatz’s last support with Marianne was disappointind. Let the BOY FLY👏🏽 )
-Dimitri got so much a better schtick out of it too. cuz WOW they did him dirty in the 1st game’s golden deer. They (and by they i mean felix) are still real mean to him, but gosh, he got out of this so much better in all endings (but being beaten to death off screen is a VERY LOW BAR)
-The Supports are still banger and a lot of them gave me real big smiles. Particualy marianne’s with ingrid and Bernadetta.
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Have you seen the amphibia finale?? Your thoughts on the show are so interesting! what did you make of it? :-)
Managed to catch it live! Glad you think my thoughts are interesting, I'm autistic as shit and love to talk about anything people throw at me. That being said, my thoughts on how Amphibia ended are... extensive, I guess. I'll keep this under the cut to spare my followers.
I've honestly had a very mixed experience with Amphibia as a whole? I originally was not interested in the show, then got very interested in it, and then the tail end of season 3 kind of... lost me. Maybe not entirely, but it definitely didn't capture my attention the same way the first two seasons did.
A lot of people say that season 1 and a fair bit of season 2 is "filler," but honestly? It felt like it was all (or most of it anyway) important for establishing the cast, the tone, and the overall liveliness of the show. If the majority of the first 2 seasons was episodic adventures with an overarching narrative, then it did an excellent job at delivering on that status quo.
Then, of course, True Colors aimed to change the status quo in a really interesting way. Things were getting more intense, consequences were becoming more tangible- so you'd expect the writing to pick up in the same direction the end of season 2 leaves you on. In some cases, this works. In others, it doesn't.
It's, unfortunately, another example of a show stretching out of its established expectations and then failing to deliver that same new quality consistently. It's trying to be dark and high-stakes and fantastical but it's also trying to be... a TV-Y7 cartoon with episodic antics contained in 20 minute time slots. Namely I don't understand why the finale felt so stretched out when most of it was recruiting different branches of an army that ultimately contributed very little to the final fight.
On that same note... I'm kind of getting really tired of the same formula of "big finale" that a lot of cartoons seem to be following lately. Everything has to end in a big fight with marvel-level theatrics even when it's completely tonally off from the rest of the show. I liked the Darcy fight! I thought Sasha and Anne teaming up to act as co-leaders was a very cool culmination of their dynamic! ...But ultimately it felt like it was all getting away from what was actually important in this show in the first place. Big, dramatic, precure-esque magical girl fights completely take away from the soft fantasy charm that made Amphibia endearing in the first place. It felt like the Plantars suddenly came second to everything else, despite their family unit being so important previously. It felt like Marcy and Sasha existed to fulfill a prophecy rather than as... people? And I enjoyed their development for the most part- but namely, Marcy was almost entirely shelved until she was important for the prophecy.
The Marcy issue could be a totally separate post, actually, thinking about how disappointing the conclusion to her arc was.
Anyway, I'll just make a little list.
Things I enjoyed seeing:
-Yunan and Olivia are canon yaaay gay people #Win
-darcy's fight with sasha felt like a great conclusion to Sasha's arc specifically
-the weird space house with that god taking domino's form was... unexpected... but cool? i mean, it mostly seemed cool as like... a setup for a completely unrelated video game, but it was still cool.
-sasha bi flag <3 we finally did it. sasha finally likes women.
Things I did not enjoy so much:
-The fact that Andrias... lived? and was largely meant to be seen as sympathetic because WAAAAA IVE HURT SO MANY PEOPLE :< SPECIFICALLY MY FRIENDS </3 like man I don't care about you losing your friends because of your own actions. what about all the people who suffered from you Choosing to be a genocidal colonizer. Dude. Marcy destroy this man.
-I think it's boring when characters suffer very intense injuries and there's no repercussions or lasting effects because making a character visibly or noticeably disabled is too confusing of a change for children or whatever but that might just be me being... beyond the age demographic for this cartoon
-the fact that they waited up until the very last episode to even remotely confirm yunan/olivia. was their romance entirely off-screen? when the hell did they realize they like each other? and i actually really Like yulivia so i don't know how they managed to fuck that up so bad
-same principle as before but bi flag on sasha's rearview mirror. you had to wait..? until now........?
-I don't understand how sasha and anne could have possibly drifted apart or why that's supposed to make sense Sorry if that's me not liking a "mature" writing decision i don't think it's realistic though. or even like... lines up with what they established. Weren't we supposed to come to the conclusion at the tail end of season 3 that they were deeply important to each other? yeah, normally people drift apart after middle school, but these are clearly not... normal circumstances. They went to traumaworld together. same thing with marcy like even if you move you have Phones and computers just make a groupchat damn
-I don't understand the moon thing. I know they've been leading up to it since season 1 supposedly but it's just so funny. the final boss is the moon.
-powerpuff calamity trio looked bad. it was cute in like a pretty precure way i guess but my god it was so power of friendship in a show that was supposed to be like... a little less generic.... than that.... i thought....
-the biggest complaint im seeing is the complete saying goodbye to Amphibia thing which.... yeah i'm going to have to agree. I know the show has kind of been leading up to the girls going home and i think THAT is good, they've always been meant to go home, but i don't necessarily think growing up = abandoning all the things that were fantastic or "magical" about your childhood? this is supposed to be the Realistic ending i guess but it's just depressing. very "growing up sucks and you will grow apart from your friends Get used to it." maybe that wasn't the intention but i don't understand how they could just separate everybody like that after All the shit they went through. crazy to me.
anyway that is enough out of me i hope you didn't expect a super glowing review but i think... amphibia may have just not been for me in the way i thought it was. I really enjoyed the writing of this show for the most part so i can appreciate that but it's going to take a while for me to sit with this finale before I can come back to it probably. not the WORST finale i've ever seen but not great either.
... on another note, very excited for the new owl house next week.
#sorry if this is in a weird or incomprehensible format im very tired and was going to go to bed but#had to get all my thoughts out while theyre Fresh#thank you for the ask :] i hope im not disappointing you with what i thought lol#amphibia spoilers#lab notes
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Its done. I finished it. Well, mostly. Still have some shit to do but I can do that on a replay. Anyways, here's my thoughts:
I cannot express how glad I am that Aerith died, even if it was a bit weird .
I love Sephiroth but for fucks sake that final battle bored me senseless it was so long. Once again the ending 'ruined' it kind of.
Rufus losing his cool was kind of sexy of him lol. Seriously that is going into fanfic from now on, the man does have a temper. And yes, I am pleased I guessed that the Viceroy was Rufus and that the war was a distraction.
Thoughts on Vince: Mmmmmmm. Also, he played a kind of watcher type role and although I would have loved to have him on the team I can understand why. 1. He's very powerful and may have made the game too easy. 2. He IS a weapon. One of the very last planetary weapons. Even if he is also human, its fitting he's watching and waiting to see if Cloud and the others will win or lose, if they lose then I guess the planet could just end it on its own terms.
Zack finally 'met' with Cloud. I have mixed feelings about that lol.
I will probably have more thoughts but for now this will do.
Oh! I forgot: Did I don't know if I'm reading it correctly but when Tseng told Reno to (basically) 'get his priorities straight' was he implying that he gave Reno time off because he was actually having second thoughts about his job after Sector 7??? Because that's what it sounded like to me. What other priorities could he have meant? (I mean, Tseng's being a hyppocrite about that if its true because I am convinced he's all torn up over Aerith and his duty to Shinra too).
That hug. You know the one I mean. THE hug. Oh. My. God.
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new blog post: Release Day: WEAR WOLF!
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Release Day: WEAR WOLF!
WEAR WOLF is available now!
I have to tell you that I am already–like, this is cool. Before the book even came out, I had a couple of people comment about the fact that my hero in this book is face-blind (has prosopagnosia), because they’d never seen a character with that disability before. I’ve had a couple more people comment since, and I’m really pleased to have brought a kind of representation to peoples’ attention with this book. I’m aphantasic (I don’t see pictures in my head), which is not unrelated to face-blindness, although I’m not actually prosopagnosiac (IDK if that’s actually a word, I might have just made it up) myself, so I have *some personal sense of not holding an image of…well, anything, actually…in my head, and hope I’ve done a reasonably good job depicting the condition.
Anyway! The book is out now, contains a hero with a lesser-known disability/condition, and also, oh, some of you might notice Noah’s only six in this, when he was eight in the recent Buck the Halls — you will correctly guess that WEAR WOLF is set about 18 months before Buck, shortly after HOLD MY BEAR, but like all the Virtue stories, is a standalone HEA that can be read in any order. :)
ONWARD!
Where oh WEAR could she be?
Wolf shifter and fashion designer Zane Bellamy has a secret: he’s ‘face-blind,’ unable to recognize people easily no matter how often he’s seen them.
Victoria Hawthorne has a secret, too, but she’s a long-term substitute teacher, and if she’s learned anything from teaching first graders, it’s that the best way to keep a secret is to not tell anybody. She and Zane have that in common…but absolutely nothing else.
Haute couture collides with ordinary life when Vicki wins a dress design by Zane himself. She knocks him off his feet when they meet…and even so, his face-blindness means he won’t recognize her the next time they see each other!
Vicki has no real plans to put down roots, especially because some of Virtue’s founding families make it clear outsiders are unwelcome—although her students, especially six-year-old Noah Brannigan—don’t seem to feel the way the town elders do.
But when local-boy-made-good Zane returns to make her gown, everything changes in a heartbeat—even as Vicki fears there’s no way this instant attraction can turn into something lasting. And although Zane can’t deny the connection he has with Vicki, he’s never really believed in fate…until circumstances run out of his control and he realizes he’s about to lose everything. But thanks to Noah’s interference, Zane might have one last chance to make it right with Vicki, and earn their fairy tale ending.
Love is blind in WEAR WOLF, a charming, steamy standalone that will have you in stitches with a guaranteed happily ever after and no cliffhangers. If you’re looking for charming, funny paranormal shifter romance, buy now and fall in love with the Virtue Shifters!
*Thor: All words are made up dot gif
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WOW!!! risky!!! so risky rusty!!! he really did this!!!
ok so. fun villain. the terrible german accent lol. Donna in the labyrinth winning with brute force ahahahaha. the babies backing away oh my god. lovely little historical one two three four mystery. making the toymaker racist - brilliant. the human faced puppets genuinely a bit urgh oof yikes. Donna getting a job at Unit!!!!!!!!! loved the negotiation hahaha
Melanie and Donna both super competent. The message ...people always thinking they're right... always 'winning' and therefore losing. i like the message, but did get a smidge of 'thomas edison is witch' stuff from the problem of the internet. idk.... children on their computers too much and ghosting and cancelling bad. i mean... well fundamentally i guess i agree im just a bit sensitive. brilliant scene with kate - some really good stuff... i agree so fundamentally with RTD about this, that all that conflict derives from the conviction that you're 100% right and paranoia and damn the lil jab at american conspiracy theorist 'news' and just the whole spiral (or 'peak') that Kate goes through instantly.
VERY HAPPY that RTD made Kate explicitly care for her employees again. Hated that Chibs didnt do that.
THE NEW DOCTOR IS SO GOOD?????????????? WHAT???? I INSTANTLY LOVED HIM HE DID SO WELL????
and somehow he's emotionally competent??? very sweet to see him comforting himself????
DT DOES look too thin and ragged in this...the bi generation... i.... was like whaat.?? this happening?? wh....ok...? this is very cool but what?? and then they DOUBLE THE TARDIS AS WELL?????
i loved loved loved the family dinner (though i do think that people always forget that ten celebrated christmas with Rose and her family). I loved how RTD brought everything thats happened in - just grabbed it all and brought it into the episode he MAKES continuity. unlike the other two his narratives are ALWAYS looking back, even as the Doctor DOESN'T. this inherent contrast gives his writing always such energy. i also really like how he tries to make things make sense, to set up explanations (like for the Master) beforehand or after the fact? we dont know (though sometimes he goes too far in this).
thought the part where DT was upset about humanity blah blah blah hatred violent crreatures blah was a bit uncalled for or went on too long.but it was a good call back alright
ill say the following, i didnt think the pacing was as good that is to say i didnt think all the puzzlepieces fitted entirely perfectly into the flow - command centre went on too long a lil bit. Loved the aside with melanie though. LOVED the dancing toymaker oh my god I LOVED IT. but all the puzzle pieces were really really good.
one thing is though. why the heck didnt the doctor say: i challenge you to a game. from the very beginning??? the moment he showed up in 2023? his preparation of an 'exit' for the Toymaker never became relevant again?
I love ncuti in this??? wow. damn! and dare i say it....he looked super hot. wow lol.
Loved the little callback to the Doctor no longer being a time lord, and so what is he now.....?
i do think: HOW is ncuti gawa supposed to be any more well-adjusted than dt when they both have the same stuff in their heads???because of regeneration???? that didnt work before??? and isnt the doctor's problem ALSO that
Russel T DAVIES,, the man of trageedy, really said, i am going back and im going to give them a happy ending. im even doing the TARDIS doubling this time like i planned. IN THE SAME UNIVERSE NO ONE CAN STOP ME. this actually might be a great set-up for hm...fugitive doctor's tardis?
love love love love that fourteen got to come home to Donna, and that Rose is his niece and he takes her to Mars and New York and that Sylia is hilarious and that Shaun is too and that Melanie is there and...but the thing is... Fourteen is immortal right? isnt that the fundamental problem??? he'll outlive them??? he couldnt stand that - before. couldnt even stand the thought.
and...they beat the toymaker by.....playing catch good. ahahaha. i think thats silly that an allpowerful entity simply couldnt catch a ball as well....(made me think of john smith episode). oh damn the cain story...hah. silly solution to all that but i think thats strength really. just say fuck it: they play catch and teh Doctor wins. just cos
i am a bit sad Fifteen didn't get more changes to his TARDIS. but i mean it's a great TARDIS. with a chair i hope. I LOVE HOW RTDHAS MADE EVEN MORE EXPLICIT how the new regeneration echoes the companions!!!
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Shiver looks....r-really good in red, holy carp.....I approve...!
B-but uh, anyway....I’m Champion now, so.....how’ve I been doing?
Well......for the first half or so....not so well, in terms of having a bit of a losing streak. I won only two matches in that first half, altho I still had a few of those “good games that end in losses”, so I wasn’t super discouraged....(Heheh...get it, discouraged? *splatted*) I lost two 10x battles that I got really unlucky with showing up super early when I was warming up, but that was about it.....
And, there’s also the fact that, after a while, the losses were....kinda self-inflicted...? Lemme explain...
There was this E-liter player I found myself on a team with. And, for those who don’t know....Two snipers on a team, especially in Turf War, usually doesn’t end well. Cuz, well, that’s half your team not inking efficiently, y’know? You only need one sniper usually....
So, I was considering switching to my Splatana, or even leaving the room....but this E-liter was actually really really cool! They were consistently good at sniping, moreso than me, and we did a good job covering each other some games! I found it really fun to play with them, and they seemed to feel the same since we’d party together in the lobby....so, I just.....stayed with them!
Obviously this meant that we didn’t win a lot, cuz it’s still a double-charger team (the team that we were in the longest was a double-charger, double-Aerospray team, which was.....a thing, certainly....XD) but we did get a few wins, and those wins were particularly hype matches, so I don’t regret sticking around at all! It helps that I KNEW I was taking a risk by staying, so I could only blame myself for my failures. XD I guess I wasn’t being super competitive....but, y’know, maybe that was also a sign of courage? Being in such a risky team like that? Pfffff.....
After the E-liter eventually left, I started getting more wins until I reached Champion. Wasn’t able to pay back those two 10x battles, cuz no more showed up......but maybe later? Dunno....
I had a good time, despite the losses. I’m finding that I’m enjoying the “good games that end in losses” a lot more recently, or...at least appreciating them. Altho winning still feels better, don’t get me wrong. XD
Of note: No mirror matches yet. Mildly surprising, since I expected kids to default to the Link team. Guess I was wrong?
We’ll see how evenly-matched once halftime comes....that’s when it’s most apparent.....Hope it’s not too bad!
#lauri plays splatoon 3#splatfest#heres hoping i can help big man get revenge for how badly things went for him last month
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Fuck You Very Much Microsoft
Alright, Void, so, we both know how much I love to complain. I have a new ire: microsoft. I'll give you however long you give yourself to try and guess what specific thing is salting my gravy so heavily...
Cool, good job, did you guess their supposed "customizable" usage? Good job if you did, better luck next time if you didn't. There was nothing to win but a brief sense of satisfaction, so fret not.
Anywho, back to the main guff: I'm mad that microsoft keeps making less and less shit MOVEABLE. I like my task bar on the side of the screen like a proper sociopath, and these fucks TOOK IT AWAY. Why? Who knows!
There's features like where certain things pop up and the way the window looks that I wish to have. Or at least LESS THAN 5 SECONDS TO SIT THERE. Dude, it feels and sounds ridiculous to bitch about 5 seconds, but when you're a dumbass like me who keeps moving my mouse over that stupid pop-up that I don't need to take any information from and resetting that 5 second timer until it's been 30 seconds and I feel like a raging impatient moron.
Just give me the option to take it away. Or make the pop ups smaller! Or not even pop up! But oh....
Oh nooo....
If we let users make their laptops nigh impossible to use for any random stranger then it's the end of the world. I want it to feel like walking on an alien planet when someone tries to use my computer. I want everyone to feel like someone hopping the fence from apple to another competing brand or vice versa, even if they too use windows. It's what works for my stupid cluttered messed up brain, and to keep having my preferences railroaded into some bullshit consistency across devices that's unneeded. I don't want my crap acting or looking like apple, it's specifically WHY I don't have those products, but each and every year some tech conglomerate decides to gargle another tech conglomerates testicles a little longer and all the products slowly share fewer and fewer differences so that these mega billion dollar companies can just inhale that much more from the masses on the brink of poverty. (It's for SURE human nature to be greedy dumbasses, these companies seem to behave like the cash cow milks forever.
IDK about y'all, but if you look at the *gestures everywhere* I currently have in my 5 year plan to make sure I have a solid bartering stash, because money is losing it's meaning in so many places or spasming in and out of reality via 1's and 0's. It's my form of stuffing my money in my mattress, okay? I'll look like a dumbass or a genius, and I'm waiting with baited breath to see which I'm proven to be. [Not really, who tf actually wants to struggle though an apocalypse?? No easy power, constant danger, all sorts of bullshit. If you like that shit, y'all can get it by just fucking backwoods hiking, so maybe just do that instead of bringing us into it]
Anyways, I'm just salted about having things once in my control taken away from me for no real reason. I'll get over it like I always do, but if someone wants to trip those uber rich dunder heads when they're walking up the stairs, that'd be greeaattt /s
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I finally finished all the optional content in FFV GBA, including Cloister of the Dead, Optional Bosses in Interdimensional Rift, and obtaining all Necromancer skills and job levels. Here’s the final thoughts:
*The final optional content is very well thought, but not very well paced. Since you get Necromancer after Enuo, the only thing remains becomes the Cloister of the Dead, which you must finish to be able to go back to Sealed Temple to get the Necromancer skills. You can get Meltdown technically from Liquid Flame I believe, and you should be able to Steal items from the refought bosses, but I didn’t try either so I can’t confirm.
*Among the optional bosses, Neo Shinryu is definitely the hardest. If you are overleveled as I was, and have three Ribbons (I didn’t get the first Ribbon in Karnak Castle’s prison, remember) at least, Enuo is the same as Neo Exdeath, not too difficult, but not short.
*Omega Mk. II and Neo Shinryu, just like their original counterparts, are very dependent on luck, and even then, the game really wants you to do specific strategies. Since I managed to get Dragon’s Whisker by dumb luck from Stringray enemies during my Blue Magic collection, the fight against Neo Shinryu was much more easily bypassed.
For Omegas and Omega Mk. II, I had to use Spellblade Thundaga (for Omega), or Spellblade Flare (for Mk. II) and Romeo’s Ballad to eventually win. If you don’t use Romeo’s Ballad to slow Omega down, it will kill you, if you don’t have the proper armor stolen from enemies (which I did not, obviously).
Neo Shinryu was an insane boss fight, but I didn’t lose the first time IIRC, but I lost against regular Shinryu because I didn’t get Hastega and didn’t Equip Dragon’s Whisker. I didn’t equip Dragon’s Whisker again for the second time against regular Shinryu, but I did manage to beat him with Dualcasted Bahamut and Black... and lots of Elixirs.
*Elixirs are your friend against superbosses, so you will need to grind a lot of Gil, if you don’t have excess Gil from job-Level grinding (like I did).
*As I said before, it still boggles my mind that Enuo’s design was made by Nomura, and isn’t a scrapped Amano design. It is definitely one of Nomura’s strongest works, though since he did most of the monsters here it isn’t that surprising.
The actual pre and post-battle dialog would be fine, if you didn’t immediately get a tutorial for Necromancer and be forced to play the Cloister of the Dead. If there was a PSP release of FFV, I suspect we would get a second campaign about the Sealed Castle of Kuza (defunct mobile/Steam versions apparently had additional sets of ultimate weapons, but apparent the GBA version doesn’t). Nonetheless, Enuo battle adds a lot of lore about Void in FF multiverse, which might me important for KH fanfic writers I guess.
*Necromancer is a very cool and very powerful job, but since you are treated as Undead in battle, you can’t use healing items, so you can’t fight bosses with it. But the Dark Arts are useful against clearing mobs of enemies, much more so than conventional “aga” magics.
Gathering the Dark Arts wasn’t as painful as collecting Blue Magics or getting the optional Summons, but it is a challange regardless. You see, your Necromancer needs to kill specific enemies, with each Dark Art having one or two specific enemies that are used for it. Most of the Dark Art enemies can be found in Sealed Temple, but others need to be hunted in the Merged World.
*I didn’t encounter Orukats in my initial visit to Interdimensional Rift, but I did manage to discover the Mover enemies here too. I don’t know what is the status of my Bestiary, nor do I care, unless I make a run specifically to complete the Bestiary much much later.
*There are still technically some other scrapped jobs that never made into this game, though all the bonus jobs were scrapped jobs from the original release of FFV. If they rerelease these GBA or the defunct mobile/steam versions, I suspect FFV would get the same kind of makeover PSP versions of FF1 and FF2 got.
*Sealed Temple was much more of a fast breeze compared to Lunar Ruins, but Lunar Ruins were originally created for an earlier mobile port of FFIV, with Square providing guides for the sidequests in that dungeon. The same is not true here, but the game hints what to do well enough, except for dealing with bosses, of course.
*Overall, I had fun, and I will probably still consider these bonus additions and this version of the game as the definitive edition of FFV.
*No, I didn’t go back and see the Moai Statue besides its cutscene. My party isn’t at Level 99 either (Lenna and Faris were at Level 98, Krile and Bartz were at Level 97)
Next game will probably be either FF3 DS or FF6 GBA. FF3 didn’t get a GBA release, and the DS version is a complete re-imagining of the original FF3 with an all new storyline and pre-constructed characters, so that should be interesting.
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