#( about: the mercenary )

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Welcome to the Dungeons of Fear and Hunger.

#Fear and Hunger #D'arce Cataliss #Cahara #Ragnvaldr #Enki Ankarian #Unlike Dungeon Meshi - I cannot in good faith recommend this game to a broad audience. #My background with F&H goes as follows: I am hanging out with a friend. He says “hey try this game I've been playing.” I say “Okay!” #I have never heard of this game. I pick the mercenary. I go through 5 min of character history and background. I am mauled to death by dogs #It took me 4 resets to even get in the dungeon. But I finally get there. I am caught by a guard. He cuts off all but one of my limbs #I am forced to crawl around in a blood and corpse pit until the game tells me 'give up idiot'. #I reset. I am mauled by dogs again. I realize this is not for me but I am intrigued enough to go home and watch some playthroughs #And WOW what an interesting game it is! I really do appreciate games that blend their design philosophy with the theme it wants to set #This is a game about fear and hunger. And persevering. And penis (my god is there a lot of penis) #I recommend this to people who like extremely challenging games and can handle the many *content warnings* within this series #If the idea of Bloodborne/eldenring and undertale having a little RPG maker baby sounds appealing to you - give it a shot #It's made by ONE GUY and it's a great horror game. I am just really bad at it. #My friends just enjoy putting me in situations where I scream and yell. We don't talk about the corn mazes. Or the other horror game nights #Apparently I'm funny when I'm Scared! #As people who follow me on twitter might know; I am deep in the pits of this series right now. I will be back with more art.

[ronkoza]

Tor: Hey Vesna. I didn’t know you have a rodent.

Arne: Nice to meet you! I’m Arne, Tor’s husband.

Vesna: It’s a DOG. You didn’t say you have a BEAR… and apparently a husband too.

Arne: Would you like to come for a cup of tea? Tor just baked cinnamon buns.

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Tor belongs to @littleulvar

#original character #modern au #vesna #tor #arne #vesna just learned more about tor in thirty seconds meeting arne #than knowing him for few years when they occasionally worked together #tor is medical examiner and helped vesna in few cases #because vesna is kind of a private detective and ex mercenary #also vesna hearing all of this would be like: #i don't know what surprises me more: the fact that you have a bear or that you bake pastries #pastel goth druids

[eemiejab]

was tryna capture the view and these guys literally ruined it :/

#ava #animation vs animator #alan becker #eemiesketch #ava the chosen one #ava tco #tco #ava mercenaries #I just want to I just want to think about stickfigres all day :( #but no #final year of college

[mixanji]

🎵 you’ve never had chocolate like this~

fan essence concept for Lucaluca heuheue

#第五人格 #luca balsa #identity v #idv prisoner #naib subedar #idv mercenary #alva lorenz #idv hermit #idv disciple #i spent so long on this aaaaaaaaa #i just want chocoluca aaaaaaa #i watched w0nka and all i can think about is luca #huuuuuu

[greasby]

Even though you were late to the party, you were still the life of it.

#caption is the desc of the mercenary badge in tf2 #but in this context its about scout being transfem :) #transfem scout #ms pauling #miss pauling #tf2 #tf2 fanart #my art

[chawawanya]

I swear the event wasnt there when i made this design.. it's too perfect now

#identity v #idv #identity v fanart #idv fanart #idv seer #idv mercenary #eli clark #naib subedar #naibeli #so normal about naib skin also

[fredoesque]

gibson's lie to irving/subsequent break-up with hickey being a way he sacrifices hickey to protect his own interests while simultaneously protecting hickey from repercussions in a twisted sort of way vs hickey killing and eating gibson being a way hickey sacrifices gibson to protect his own interests while simultaneously protecting gibson from a slow and painful death in a twisted sort of way. is this anything

#soulmates <3 #perhaps even... gibson telling himself he's protecting hickey as well so he can downplay his own selfishness #vs hickey telling himself he's being mercenary and practical so he doesn't have to acknowledge being unable to face the prospect of gibson #slowly wasting away. if one wanted to be sappy about it #the terror

[ikarakie]

tony stark finally, finally tracking down the son that was taken from him as a child, only to be suitably horrified at the fact his little boy has grown up to best friends with both deadpool and daredevil

#he doesn’t even know about the spider-man thing yet #he just sees his CHILD hanging out with a MERCENARY #and has a heart attack #i started writing this btw #tony stark #peter parker #wade wilson #matt murdock #spiderman #daredevil #deadpool #iron man #iron dad #spiderson #team red #prompt

[deus-and-the-machina]

you know the contrast between how Vergil is presented vs thinking too hard about Vergil’s story is pretty funny. Man’s reputation is this iconic badass, the pinnacle of what video game rivalries can be, the coolest guy to play as, the guy who breaks every game he’s added to,

and then you go to the story and like. man’s lost his free will and autonomy at 19 and then came back a fractured man half of which was a lovecraftian eye beast the other half of which was a chronically ill goth man. and then he reunites and hes in like his 40s now I believe but legit the last time he was actually in a game where he wasn’t being mind controlled when he was 19 which is both sad but also thinking about how this guy who’s considered one of the top badasses of gaming has never really lived life outside of being a teenager.

Anyways this is the secret comedic potential of post DMC5 for Vergil because not only has the human world probably changed a fair bit in terms of technology, if he’s sticking around Dante he’s gonna actually have to learn in depth how taxes and grocery shopping work. Amazing.

#thinking about dmc seriously for the first time in a while...I never stopped the occasional canary reblog but hmmmmmmm #like I imagine post 3 Vergil was probably similarly doing mercenary/demon killing work to get money like Dante was and thats sorta shown in #the novels. but like before that when he was a young young kid just post attack he was probably just living feral in an alleyway or smth #with just the yamato prolly similar to how v at the start of visions of v was. that child mugged and dumpster dived ok #point is while obviously he got to a place where he wasnt like. broke and homeless by the gilver era hes probably not had to think much #about money besides it buys me food and clothes mans was confused by one goaland power and yada yada while guess what buddy now you're #gonna be consumed by adulting. I dont even think he'd be that bothered by Dante not paying the bills at first but once he settles into human #living and gets a firsthand experience of what a cold shower when the heating is off feels like he is ON his ass about it #he pretends hes sooooo above human concerns until he has to live them lol and nowhes in charge of devil may crys finances prolly #nero taught him how to do taxes I bet #devil may cry #vergil sparda #vergil

[essektheylyss]

me, making a PC playlist: is Marina really an appropriate choice for an exhausted, four hundred year old grizzled war mage?

me, a split second later: what the fuck am I talking about. that's the demographic Marina makes music for.

#it is not bubblegum bitch but I did think about that post while I did it. #anyway look. the setting I was given was too good not to make the most tired mercenary wizard. I can't be blamed. #multiple DMs have been like 'here megs do you want to play amidst a state of horrific warfare?' and I'm like 'boy DO I' #it's not my fault okay. it is my fault that I make them wizards. but in my defense aoe casters are war criminals by default. #to be fucking clear this is a JOKE #regardless. my playlist slaps. #megs plays dnd #megs SHOULD BE ANNOTATING A BIBLIOGRAPHY BUT NOOOO #I gotta talk to the librarian tomorrow it's fine I can do it on friday

[sciderman]

Can we uhm get a little doddle maybe of alt!peter if or when you're feeling up to it? Haven't seen him in a while, I miss him, was viscerally in love with his pretty boy face

gumpy

#pretty boy face??? #peter parker #alt!peter #the guy's been through the wringer. #oh.. kinda miss him too. #thinking about him. and his pet cat. #sci. draw him and his pet cat. #who is named newton. #deep 9319 peter lore. alt!peter has a pet cat named netwon who is a successor to the pet rock he had in high school also named newton. #the pet rock that was shaped like a brain. and he made wire glasses for. #sad. all of it so sad. #love that alt!peter is this cool hot roughed up mercenary peter parker but. he's still a loser and nobody knows. nobody knows. #he is lonely and talks to his cat because he has no friends.

[flareboi]

im in lov wit your ballista design ned more plz plz

hi anon, i made this just for u

i think agent smith/striker/g.u.i whatever and ballista are worsties. guy that says ‘henceforth’ in daily conversation vs monster energy drinker

#tw drugs #if you think he doesnt smoke weed youre lying to yourself #i have a very specific personality in mind for him #hes unhinged. and also a gamer probably #i also think he is like. a video game chaatcter for real. he can double jump #oh btw if ur wondering about the legitimate reasons for agent #its albinism (lack of melanin leans to extra sensitivity to sun ESPECIALLY in the eyes) #ava #my art #ava ballista #ava agent smith #ava smith #ava pivot #fuck hes got so many names #ava mercenaries #ask box

[fiery-emblems]

I really wish people would stop claiming that Fates/Awakening/ect. are the WoRsT wRiTiNg EvEr while propping up 3H as some kind of modern masterpiece. Houses is JUST AS WILLING (if not more so) as any other Fire Emblem game to pull random details right out the butt, or bring up seemingly important details just to forget about them in the next scene and never bring them up again, or introduce details that directly contradict something you learned about previously.

Houses just gets away with more because the first half of the game puts half an effort into making it seem like the characters backstories are tied to the main plot (only the BL though lol), and because OoH tHe StOrY iS sOo DaRk.

#honesty i suspect that a big reason fates gets more hate is because corrin is a naive prince/cess who gets to make mistakes #while byleth is a naive mercenary whos always super cool and awsome and can do no wrong #yeah 3h has such great writing #as long as you ignore 1/3 of all the events that happen!! #and especially if you ignore everything having to do with the mole people!!! #you know #the guys who drive most of the plot forward #frustrated having to constantly read about how great this game is #fire emblem three plot holes

[rukafais]

It's a genuinely fascinating thing to me that sometimes a character's in-universe lies become so deeply convincing to the audience that the audience will argue that the character's facade was their real face, even and especially when shown evidence to the contrary. Maybe a bit too successful?

#anyway people have been interpreting Jarlaxle as a sexy badass coolguy mercenary man who never fails ever #for like thirty slutty slutty years #and i think thats funny because wow he'd love you to believe that #and not think about any of his problems goodbye

[mixanji]

also i forgot to post this on valentine’s day itself pffft

#identity v #第五人格 #luca balsa #naib subedar #naibluca #idv prisoner #idv mercenary #nawaluca forever #you can’t take nawaluca from me #when boifwen gives you lemons #teach him about electrical engineering #using the lemons

[catsandgoodbooks]

So. Punz and George. They're both very much defined by their relationships with Dream, probably more than anyone else on the server. It's hard to talk about Punz without bringing up Dream, and it's hard to talk about George without referencing him either. They have lives, of course, but Dream is always at the forefront of their minds. Punz spent a whole year of their life just waiting for Dream's escape; George dreams away the days even after the jailbreak in a fantasy world of his imagination where everything is perfect and he can be with Dream.

But they don't really have a relationship. They don't talk, especially not about Dream, because that would show that they cared, and George is trying to deny that to himself after the dethronement and Punz cannot allow anyone to consider even for a moment that they are on Dream's side or it was all for nothing. So the relationship they do have, weak and distant as it is, is based on bitterness and perceived betrayals and envy.

George doesn't really think about Punz much. If he did, he'd had to think about Dream, and not his Dream, not the Dream that exists only in his dreams now, but the actual, real Dream. The Dream who dethroned him without a second glance. The Dream he abandoned. The Dream locked away in an obsidian prison, rotting away as George sleeps. And George doesn't want to think about Punz. Not when it pulls him out of his dreams and makes him think about Dream.

When he does think about Punz, though, he's not exactly a fan of them. They betrayed Dream; undeniably, inexcusably, they did. They had his trust, and they threw it away for a little extra bit of money. George would never do something like that. Dream left first, after all. Dethroned George first and told him he didn't care what happened to him. Dream never did that to Punz.

And that's important. Dream never turned against Punz; they were the one who chose to betray him. Dream never quite trusted George the same way he did with Punz, and, in the period leading up to the dethronement, he let George in on less and less of his plans, grew closer and closer to his mercenary. George told himself it was because Dream wanted to keep him safe. After the dethronement, he accepted the fact that Dream just didn't care about him anymore, and that it had been a sign of that.

George tells himself that if he had been in the situation as Punz, if Dream trusted him, he would of never done what they did.

Punz...doesn't have a great opinion of George, to tell the truth. They might of pretended to betray Dream, but George (and Sapnap, and everyone who was there and just watched it happen) is the one who actually did. George left. He left and didn't come back, didn't even show up for the arrest/execution (because that's what it really was, an execution, no use dancing around it). He didn't even go visit Dream in Pandora's Vault, even when he had every chance to, even when he didn't have a plan dictating that he absolutely could not do that. Not like Punz did.

Unreliable. Untrustworthy. Uncaring. Those are the nicest words for what George is, at least to Punz. Dream died, twice, and George was nowhere to be found. Just because Dream had been trying to keep him safe. To make sure people didn't try to target George to hurt Dream. And George just left, like that was an option in this game they were all playing, that none of them save Wilbur had chosen to play, like you could just throw up your hands and say "okay, that's it, I'm done" and leave with immunity, taking everything you've done with you. That wasn't how the world worked. And it didn't matter if George understood that or not, because it still hurt Dream, and that was what was important. Because what George did was a betrayal, and because they were already familiar enough with that to know how bitter it tasted. Because Punz had to constantly pretend and reap what they had sown and deal with this betrayal they had committed - not the one they were infamous for but the one in their heart and their brain and the way people looked at them and laughed with them and the way they had agreed to the plan and let Dream die and the sneaking suspicion they had, growing louder every day, that something had gone wrong and that they had to do something about it but that too would be a betrayal - but George didn't, just because he had been there earlier and knew some people longer. Because people trusted him more and he didn't have to prove how reliable he was and how much he hated Dream and all that.

And because George had Dream's love in a way Punz never could. Dream loved too freely, that much was true, but he flinches at every motion Punz that was a little too fast, a little too sudden, and makes sure to call everything a business arrangement, makes sure they're mercenary and client, makes sure to suppress any little trace of attachment that could get either of them hurt. And, even now, even after George has gone and left, Dream still loves George; Punz isn't too blind to reality to miss it. And they had kinder days together, back before everything went wrong; there were no kinder days for Punz, and there never had been.

Despite everything, they're two sides of the same coin: wishing for something that is no longer reachable, no longer possible, because things have changed and because people have changed. Because Dream has changed, partially due to the decisions they made, and there isn't anything they can do to go back to how it was. Not truly.

And neither of them really care about anything or anyone else. They're not here to fight for ideals or morals, they just want to keep the people they love safe and away from the people who would want to hurt them. They are willing to kill for it, but, because of who Dream is, and because that would put them in danger, they can't. They're not allowed to, explicitly in Punz's case, implicitly by Dream pushing George away. Because Dream wants to keep the people he cares about safe, and that can't happen if it looks like he cares about them or vice versa.

(It's only okay if Dream's the one getting hurt, after all)

#punz was raised in the middle of a warzone and became a mercenary in order to survive and get the hell out of #there #back on my bullshit #yes yes i will talk about sapnap (in conjunction with punz) someday #right now it's george time #ranty rant rant #sorry if i got stuff wrong i am so tired right now and finals are coming up #also just me inserting my headcanon #just cause #dsmp #c!george #c!punz #c!dream #dnf #drunz #who would have guessed it #my writing #long post