if you have any other posts of this kind please send them to me
update: this one thanks to @iputmcytsintohydraulicpress (great url, by the way)
this one courtesy of @catamaurrr-star
So I didn’t want to separate it into two images, this was the best I could do- thanks to @blocky-tides! also art is by @/cheeryfairies
thanks @o0recipme0o
hey @igotthisaccountunderduress. less mcyt related but thanks anyways :D
heheh
I GIVE UP GUYS HOW DO I IMAGE ID SOMEONE HELP ME
...so anyways here's my self-promotion now that this has almost 15,000 notes and you guys sure as hell won't see it if i reblog
My AO3! Not much there right now besides OC stuff, but more to come!
Situations ask game! pleasepleaseplease send me hc/life series stuff here i need enrichment (some of these are shorter, but i can promise you i will deliver!)
@traffic-smp-headcannons! me and mod tides like seeing your ideas :)
(of note: i also take art requests, but only traditional)
There is something deeply hilarious about Oliver, untrained, unqualified coroner who is a reluctant End avatar sending a coroner's report about someone (and something) that hasn't died yet to Jon, an untrained, unqualified archivist who is a reluctant Beholding avatar to archive away in his archives that don't really function like an actual archive
8. Malaysian by today's grab driver who is very chatty that I didn't even managed to correct his mistake because I couldn't interrupt him
Also, side note but someone called my dad "om" (Indonesian polite equivalent of Mr or uncle for indigenous people) instead of "suk" (Mr or uncle for Chinese people) and my dad was so confused as this is apparently the first time someone mistook him for Indonesian instead of Chinese
As a chindo who have strong Indonesian features compared to Chinese features (although I am genetically more Chinese than Indonesian), it is always amusing to see which country other people think I am from. It is even funnier when they know I'm not from Malaysia and they somehow still guess I'm Malaysian.
I made a list (sort of) of what country people assume I'm from just because I find it funny how no one guessed correctly (yet)
Which country someone assume I am from according to the people who first met me (plus the language they assume I speak):
1. Malaysian by 75% of my classmates at uni and rarely, some store clerks (mostly mandarin, but some also assume I only speak English)
2. Philippines by my groupmate (English) (this actually happen 2 days ago)
3. Chinese by store clerks (mandarin)
4. Taiwanese/Chinese by the old ladies on public transport (mandarin)
5. Malaysian again, but this time indigenous Malaysian (not Chinese Malaysian) by 20% of my uni class mates (bahasa melayu and Chinese)
6. Singaporean by 1% of my uni classmates (mandarin + English)
7. Confused as to where I am from by the last 4% of my uni classmates and just straight up asked (English)
I've got Vodial on the brain today, so we're starting with some worldbuilding stuff for it
First thing: because this is a fanfic set in a video game, based off several servers where the characters acknowledge respawn, there is respawn. This is a part of the universe, it's a part of daily life, no biggie
(for most people. sometimes. it can become a biggie. this is a plot point so we won't go too much into it here, but people vary so)
But! This means there's an entire set of things to explore about respawn. We as players see the lil' menu screen that pops up after death, but how does it work for someone living in that world? What does it feel like? Does it feel different between servers/worlds? What makes it feel different? What happens when you're playing on a different difficulty, does that change anything about it?
This got touched on super briefly in Blink of an Eye, which is set in the same world as Voidal, where there's a decent amount of narration about feeling the universe's love while respawning, and gathering code, and stuff like that. We can pretty reasonably establish this as the baseline expected way for respawn to go, because we gotta pick a baseline to identify what qualifies as unusual.
One of the big things with respawn, especially, is most of the time it heals the injury that finished you off--and generally all the ones before that, too--because that's how video games typically work and this is set in the world of a video game.
But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes things don't heal fully. Sometimes there's a scar. And while unusual, the characters in the story are functionally immortal as long as they want to continue living, so most people have met at least one or two who this has happened to (if it hasn't happened to them).
One of the really big things is that the universe loves you (end poem my beloved) and so working that into respawns is incredibly important from a storytelling perspective, even if the character isn't sure of why yet. And this makes it super extra important when that doesn't happen, because it's a sign something else is wrong. Something else is significantly wrong.
There's a ton of different ways I could keep talking about this, and I can and will go for actual hours, but for the sake of not dumping everything in one post I'm gonna end this one here
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