"He was a clean-cut, handsome, light-complexioned man—not large, but well built. [...] No matter how filthy and dirty everyone was on the battlefield, Hillbilly's face always had a clean, fresh appearance. He was physically tough and hard and obviously morally strong. He sweated as much as any man but somehow seemed to stand above our foul and repulsive living conditions in the field."
Eugene Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
"When everybody else was sweating and filthy, Hillbilly always looked fresh scrubbed. None of us knew how he did it."
RV Burgin, Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific
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will have a more substantial comment on 73 yards once i rewatch it, but i have to say: half a crown for a cuppa in devil's chord, five quid for a coke in 73 yards... are we going for the most obscure series arc in a while - the horror of overpaying for drinks????
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Great points. Now that I'm looking at the War from a game designer's perspective, I think Prospit's smartest move hinges on a deep question about Sburb's mechanics - one that we haven't addressed yet.
Namely: is the Battlefield an unwinnable game for Prospit, or is it a winnable game that it's not allowed to win?
The distinction is important, so let me explain. I'm asking if you took all the rules of the conflict on Skaia - the relative strengths of the kingdoms, their weaponry, the size and structure of the Battlefield, everything you need to simulate the War - and played it as a pen-and-paper game, while completely removing Homestuck's fate system as a factor - would Prospit still always lose?
Is the outcome here decided by the game's design, or is it influenced by forces beyond its basic ruleset? Is the Battlefield a real game of chess, or is it a game of chess where some unseen hand keeps arbitrarily knocking over White's pieces when they get too close to winning?
If it's the former, then no winning Battlefield strategy exists. The War cannot be won under any circumstances, and Prospit needs to redefine victory. Maybe you can't win - but how long can you stall for? The Players will arrive eventually, and they're not subject to your restrictions.
If it's the latter, then a winning Battlefield strategy does exist, but it's irrelevant, because there is a mechanism external to the game which prevents you from employing it.
Can you learn about that mechanism, though? Try and fight it, maybe? It might not be as absolute as it seems - and what do you have to lose?
I think Prospit is acting under the assumption that the former is true. Redefining victory is, after all, exactly what the Queen did when she abdicated - so I think she is trying to play this as smart as possible.
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I SAW YOUR NEW CHAPTER POST OUT OF CONTEXT AND I ALMOST SHIT MYSELF CUS NEW DELTARUNE CHAPTER 😨
HDHSJSJSJDBSJKSKS oh no i realized that like hours after i posted it like noooo not that, tho i wish
i'd definitely stop writing as soon as that came out i'd be going too berserk
also when chapter 3 DOES drop im not gonna just make a little tiny weak-enthusiasm post id be screaming at the top of my lungs, polls, fanart oh my hyperfixated ass is gonna go APESHIT
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War AU x Second Love
Lmao Sam this is literally the plot to the Nandopoleon AU this exists in my head 😭😭
So Fernando is Napoleon, right? And Napoleon had two wives, right? Mark is his first love(i.e. Josephine), older than him, and who he is deeply in love with but has to divorce because Mark can't really provide anything(i.e. no political advantages, infertile, etc.) So Fernando needs to make a political marriage. And who does he marry! The young son of one of the most prominent monarchies in Europe: Lance, Archduke of Austria.
Lance is very resistant to this at first of course. All grumpy like, "Dad, why do you want me to marry the guy who just defeated us in four separate wars. He's literally beaten us since practically my birth, and now I have to marry him? Yuck." Both him and Fernando come into the marriage with bad expectations, Lance despising Fernando for all he represents and Fernando viewing Lance as just a means to an end. But Lance fits in to the kingdom very well and Fernando comes to adore him and pamper him all the time. And suddenly Lance to his father is all like, "the Emperor is great actually 🥰 I was so wrong 🥰"
Meanwhile Mark is just forced to the side, and has to watch while Fernando's love for him diminishes, and his love for Lance grows. They still talk a lot and spend time together, but Mark is constantly sniping at Fernando about his new "wife."
I think Lance would stick by Fernando's side during his exile and subsequent return. He grows to be more loyal to Fernando than to his own family and original kingdom. And even though Fernando originally just views him as a means to an end, he eventually lets Lance fight alongside when they are eventually drawn back into war. Maybe in this AU, he actually wins 😔
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April's dawn finds me alone, you're a memory I can't hold.
The city wakes, but my world is a battlefield.
All my defenses lie in ruins.
This storm within is tearing me apart.
I must find solace or wander this wasteland forever.
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claire/leon this, ada/leon that, but the true love story of re2 is NIGHTHAWK waiting for HUNK even after he's late and the news of bomb dropping and HUNKs fucking order to leave him
i wanted to meet the grim reaper my ass
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There is an entire unhinged conversation between me and my brother on Snapchat where I try to communicate exactly what angle I need him to send me a pic of his Indiana Jones hat in.
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