#Loyalty Islands

[theearthquaketrackingfox]

#地震 #global #worldwide #earthquake #earthquakes #loyalty islands #津波 #tsunami

[piecanl]

Do you think Tubbo would recognize the path Bad is going down, because it's one he's already walked down on?

This self-destructive behavior coming from a broken heart?

He hasn't seen Bad at his best, before the eggs got kidnapped. He's seen him a victim to grief more than a father. It's why the blue staining Bad's being isn't out of the ordinary.

But suddenly he starts carrying flowers to remind him of the love he lost, suddenly the void calls out his name even louder and suddenly Tubbo sees himself in the older demon.

And it's scary, because suddenly he sees what he has become, how it affects others.

And for the first time of many, he sees Bad walk down a road he's paved. For the first time of many, Bad is the one repeating Tubbo's mistakes.

#the parallels between soul hunters make me SOOOOO ill you hav no idea #i needed to get this out of my brain I might've misscharactarized Bad on the way and If I have sorrayyy..... #their fascination or connection with death #their undying loyalty to those they let in their circle #the switch of their perspectives on resolving conflicts after both Purgatories #the self-sacrificial mindset when it comes to the eggs #the fact they're some of the most trusted people with the eggs #Bad is openly trusted by parents while Tubbo is silently trusted by the eggs while they're both simultaneously safe spaces for the kids #Tubbo has been there for a lot shorter than Bad which lead to him following a lot of previous islanders' including Bad's steps #but suddeny he's been trust into many tragedies and now he has his own path people may fall down in #JUST AGH #i feel like I'm going in circles #i don't know #i dont think they'd ever openly discuss their weaknesses infront of eachother #but I also don't think they'd ever outright shut off a conversation over grief they share #qsmp tubbo #qsmp badboyhalo #soul hunters #soulhunters

[habeascorpseus]

i love how for the next two weeks theyre very clearly gonna not be doing much rp or lore and be in Pure competition mode, BUT, the actions they take against each other in this arc WILL effect rp (in that it decides the fates of their children) meaning they will HAVE to reckon with the bloody and violent acts they committed against each other in the name of competition. its not just cellbit, or bad, or quackity who have blood on their hands and will need to reflect on it, all of them will be at fault for the loss of one if not All of the eggs.

#habeas speaks #qsmp liveblog #qsmp #qsmp purgatory #thinks about how every islander who knew about cellbits murders went from covering for him to protect him from punishment #to immediately turning on each other and planning to kick each other while theyre down and sabotaging each others efforts #even with the caveat that one team is Cursed and if that team loses EVERY egg will be lost #like that doesnt fucking matter to them what matters is team loyalty #they are no longer the islanders against a bigger threat they are teams against each other in a game where everyone loses #but one team loses the MOST. and nobody wants to be that team

[eerna]

gestures wildly. it's about crafting a legend out of a living person. how the Ghost is something your friend made up on the spot to make you look cool, but then it slowly starts taking over your life. until you forget everything you believed to be true. until everyone you loved is gone. your clan is disbanded, your uncle disowns you, you have gone from a honorable nobleman to a wanted outlaw. BUT you did it for love - for the fact that you love your people and your island so deeply that you're willing to sacrifice your entire existence for them. it's not something any of their leaders have ever given them, and they see it, so they start turning to you more and more, telling about their encounters with you around survivor campfires, spinning tales until you are a seven-foot-tall monster who has risen from the dead to save them. you no longer belong only to your loved ones. you now belong to the entire island, and you will stay theirs.

#watched a few of my fav cutscenes again and good lord. the SYMBOLISM IN THE MUSIC #THE WAY THE GAME STARTS OUT WITH JIN'S THEME BUT THEN SLOWLY THE GHOST'S THEME KEEPS CREEPING IN #THE WAY OF THE GHOST PLAYING AT THE END OF ACT 2 WHEN YOU DISCARD YOUR IDENTITY AS JIN SAKAI. #the way they are so similar to each other.... bc like. jin IS the ghost. he is still the same calm kind loving guy. #but now he is BLOODY and VENGEFUL and MURDEROUS. WONDERFUL. FANTASTIC. LOVELY #it sort of reminded me of botw with the ''you're falling in love with the country you're saving'' thing #you become one of the people but also one with the island. you fall in love with what your uncle sees as his right. #you start ighting for it not because it is your duty or because it owes you loyalty. you just love it too much to let it burn. #i should really make this a liveblog i am losing my mind over this game #tsushima liveblog #i now have another reason to hate tlou2: IT SNUBBED THIS GAME IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY IT COMPLETELY OVERSHADOWED IT #i saw a yt comment that was like ''you have the woke crowd to thank for that'' and im like #TSUSHIMA IS WOKE AF WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT IT'S SOOOOOOOO AMAZING BJVSKDBVKSABK

[willkimurashat]

I just think that no one will ever compare

#yes i started replaying s2 for the first time #i tried to pick someone else and i coupled up with gary at first but i couldn’t keep away from bobby for long #man playing s5 made me realize loyalty is so attractive haha… #litg #love island the game #litg s2 #litg bobby #bobby mckenzie

[petrichormore]

knew q!fit and q!phil wouldn’t snitch. they’re real ones

#loyalty to the islanders over the federation ALWAYS #qsmp liveblog

[lookslikethatsallthetimewehave]

Strange man.

Loyalty!

#loyalty #poptropica #character.ai #myron van buren #poptropica winston #survival island #poptropica fanart #fanart #art #doodle

[asexual-squidward]

Posts about LOST making me revisit my thoughts / headcanons about what happens with Ben and Hurley on the now-peaceful island.

I love the idea of the dynamic between Ben knowing everything about how the island works, but not much about popular culture or actually having a life outside of following orders and doing things for the sake of the island. And Hurley wanting Ben to loosen up and also deal with some of that trauma that he’s got going on, but also being very ‘???’ about how the island works.

And Hurley has an uphill battle because the remaining people on the island:

Don’t know who he is just emerging from the forest and proclaiming him to be the new protector

Ben is here and has a history of being the Cause Of Problems and now he’s claiming to be good now and this new guy is vouching for him but how can we trust him when he’s a known liar

So trying to get Ben used to living a more settled and less traumatic life is challenging because the guy has been essentially running on fumes for years and now his conscience and trauma is catching up with him and isolating himself doing paperwork isn’t going to help that.

Headcanons for Ben & Hurley’s Adventures On The Island™️

Ben is sometimes very exasperated at Hurley continuously questioning stuff that he understood (or learned not to question) when he was barely a teenager. But also Hurley keeps trying to get Ben to sit down and eat some goddamn popcorn because what do you mean you haven’t watched [movie]?!

Ben has to to unlearn lying automatically as a form of putting up walls. Hurley becomes very adept at telling when Ben is lying (he doesn’t know if that’s part of being the Protector or if his friendship with Ben has granted him that).

Hurley introduces Ben to ‘his culture’ (ie movies and video games. He uses his powers as Protector to ransack an out-of-business Blockbusters at least once) - while also reading books Ben recommends even though he’s not much of a book guy but he wants to meet him halfway.

Both of them help each other process their grief, trauma, and PTSD from [gestures to the entirety of LOST]. Including flashbacks, nightmares and panic attacks. Both of them are good listeners, it’s getting the other to talk about their problems that’s the struggle (Hurley rambles about other things to change the subject while Ben will just keep working until he drops)

Following from that, Hurley keeps getting imposter syndrome and thinking he’s not good enough to be the Protector. And he doesn’t understand why Ben trusts him (Ben also has this exact fear too but hides it far better)

Ben is still unused to hugs, which is an issue as Hurley is a big hugger. He has picked ben up in a bear hug and spun him around at least once.

Basically Hurley has adopted the human equivalent of a rescued attack dog as his emotional support animal.

#Me looking at actual-murderer-and-chronic-liar Ben Linus #Chanting ‘wet cat wet cat wet cat’ #look Ben doesn’t even have the highest kill count (which is inherantly funny for a main villain) #I have a lot of feelings about Ben Linus and how he appears self-serving but also everything he does is for the island #and he gets blinded by his loyalty to the island and Jacob #the fact that his AU self was actually a genuinely good guy?? #The guy had an abusive father then got shot and fell in with essentially a cult and was conditioned to obey an unseen god for a young age #I’m so so happy Hugo decided to adopt him as an advisor at the end #the guy needs a rest and also a friend and he got one #Also yes Ben does continue to keep rabbits #LOST #LOST spoilers #Ben Linus #hugo reyes #hurley reyes #benjamin linus

[kimochi-ubiwai]

Repostober: Day 8

#repostober #today is one of my favorite snk characters birthday floch forster \(≧▽≦)/ #big hooray!! #he is one of the best supporting snk characters for me #i love his loyalty to his homeland and friends (like eren or jean) #his unwavering principles his critical thinking in every situation and his talent for fiery speeches are GREAT #i also admire floch for the fact that even if he once joined the survey corps without any great goals #and was just a mediocre cadet #but later he became one of the most brave and indispensable soldiers on the paradise island ♡

[islandfate]

using sorting hat chats to determine the true placement of lost's characters within the hogwarts houses. this is such a fun exercise in exploring these characters and i will probably be talking more about this soon. and my hot take?? ben is a ravenclaw.

#i've looked into the eye of this island ( thoughts ) #i encourage anyone reading this to check out sorting hat chats #it's soooo fun to look at for both yourself and your characters #and through it i truly have come to believe that ben is a ravenclaw … #there is not one ounce of loyalty in this man ( at least in regards to people ) #as manipulative and cunning as he may be he just does not fit into slytherin's core trait! #which is being loyal to people in their inner circle #but i will expand on this … sometime soon hopefully #i still gotta write up his season two arc but i need to get there on the rewatch first lol #just so the thoughts and scenes are fresh! #but i have a list of posts to make and these two are def on there so stay tuned

[theearthquaketrackingfox]

Earthquake: Magnitude 6.4 - Loyalty Islands

2022-05-26 10:38:03 (UTC-05:00)

#earthquake #earthquakes #global #world #worldwide #loyalty islands #pacific

[sophiehatterp]

i truly believe from the bottom of my heart that percy would not help calypso at all after she cursed annabeth. that boy loves his girlfriend more than anything in the whole world and was ready to kill whoever hurted her with his own bare hands

#shit didn't make any sense to me when i read it #ofc his fatal flaw is loyalty but why he would be loyal to that woman #calypso is annoying #not their fault if u made the wrong choices ok #u shouldve stayed in that island forever #percy jackson #annabeth chase #hoo #pjo #heroes of olympus #percy jackon and the olympians #calypso

[sapphicmumrik]

I would kill for a real, Sega-made well thought out Knuckles game tbh

#fern.sth #I never got to play Chaotix so that doesn't count but #just the note that Knuckles feels like the main protagonist of frontiers in the prologue... #makes me think with the connection between Angel Island and the Starfall Islands would've been better explored with an echidna pov #'clans'. it's the first time they've acknowledged there are other echidna clans outside of the Knuckles clan #if Sage is a product of another clan or protecting her clan's island like he is #Sage being the antithesis to Knuckles' loyalty to his tribe's memory. swallowed by her grief and anger #idk this girl's deal but #iconnectedthedots.meme #shadow got his own game I've been waiting 29+ years for a knuckles game

[sege-h]

I see Growth tho

Sage went from being dismissive of emotions to being curious abt them?

#Sege plays Sonic Frontiers #Sonic Frontiers spoilers #Frontiers spoilers #Like on the first island she was like #'Love is illogical and a fleshy emotion thing ANYWAY' #And now she's posing a question like this #When I think if this happened on island 1 she wouldve been like #'your loyalty is based on emotions and blind faith after all' or something

[sukimas]

mila and duma being earth dragons also makes sense with the fact that they end up having degeneration happen. we know from All That Bull Shit that happens in archanea that if you've got a dragonstone, degeneration doesn't happen to you, no matter how much you abuse your power; naga was worried it would happen to tiki, thus she had gotoh shut her up in the ice temple asleep for a millennium, but it didn't end up being relevant in the slightest. even when the binding is broken, as in awakening, tiki is completely unconcerned with the whole affair. we hear from xane and gotoh that overusing your power if you have it sealed in a dragonstone just exhausts the dragonstone and kills you instead, which is why there are barely any divine dragons left.

we can assume, since we see duma in his dragon form, that he just stays in that all the time. that's fine for the draconic degeneration plot. however, the other plot point here is that mila was also going off the deep end- despite the fact that she shows up in human form.

you might assume that the orb she's holding in her introduction cutscene is a dragonstone, but i think that that's possibly false; though she does appear to channel her power through it, she's got her wings, horns, and tail even beforehand, so if she's sealed her dragon form away she hasn't done a very good job of it.

heroes isn't really canon, but it's notable that neither she nor duma use dragonstones in their art, unlike other dragons who are not very dead like naga (notably, fucking medeus does, even though he's a shadow dragon in his heroes variant)

these two- taking human forms but not actually having sealed away their power- are in direct contrast to the divine dragon tribe, who seal away their power to such an extent that they and everyone who follows their lead are easily able to be defeated by humans. there are no exceptions to this rule among the divine dragons, as far as we're aware.

but if these two are earth dragons (even partially) this does make sense. obviously, they're loyal to naga, but she still sends them away with falchion (perhaps the prototype falchion?), not trusting that they'll stay on the side of humanity. if they were willing to seal their power away somewhat for appearances but still wanted to help humankind (by granting them either power or prosperity), they'd be fulfilling the goals of both tribes...

or so they think until The Incident, anyway.

draconic degeneration doesn't happen on other continents besides fodlan, which runs on archanea rules anyway and has dragons which obviously don't properly seal away their power, and fateslandia, which is fateslandia and better off forgotten. the rules for it on archanea are pretty well established, as are the loyalties that lead some tribes to experience it by marth's time and others not to.

mila and duma as solely divine dragons fucks all of that up. so for the benefit of making archanea lore coherent in the slightest: they're just hybrids, lol.

#that would also explain why naga found them such a headache she banished them to an island #members of the divine dragon tribe certainly don't do what she wants all the time #(hi gotoh introducing magic to humanity how are you doin over there) #but them having possibly split loyalties in a big fuckoff war WOULD be an issue

[edens-serigala]

whole cake would've already been completely devastating of an arc, but the crew bringing sanji's loyalty into question just broke me

#and it continues to do so #sanji doesn't deserve this #he doesn't deserve any of it #but i don't get why we needed to have a conversation about where sanji's loyalties lie #one piece #whole cake island arc