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carm3n-carm3n · 4 months
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the-nothing-maker · 8 months
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Galien, the Black Dragon
(Galien is a vampire lord and NPC from @luposlipaphobya's D&D campaign, Une Cour de Chair et de Charme, with an original design by @d-cybele !)
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kinocakez · 10 days
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Ok so... how are we feelin bout this🧍‍♀️
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canisalbus · 5 months
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To me, Machete kind of has the energy of a secondary villain/coldhearted side character in someone else's story that a lot of fans latch onto, moreso than the protagonist. Question is, would he be the villain in anyone's story?
Why, thank you! I'm actually glad to hear he gives off that vibe. I don't think he set out to become a villain but a lot of people certainly view him as one.
#in the 16th century canon he starts out as an introverted but sincerely well meaning guy that never quite manages to find his social niche#he was a sensitive kid and when subjected to enough pressure#his insecurity fearfulness and powerlessness mutate into distrust resentment aggression suffocating repression and self-restraint#I don't think he's a bad person in fact he consistently tries very hard to do the right thing#do his job properly avoid letting people down and get through life with a sense of dignity#but he is supposed to come across kind of cold impersonable and difficult to be around if you don't know him personally (and very few do)#people can sense there's something wrong with him and are put off by it#Vatican is a nest of vipers and as the stakes rise he retreats deeper into his coldblooded untouchable work persona#he has no choice but to start lying scheming blackmailing and eliminating his enemies#in order to maintain his position keep Vasco safe their relationship under wraps and his own head above water#essentially playing by the same rules everyone else in the holy see has been playing with for centuries#eventually he loses his spot as the secretary of state and is manipulated/forced to take on a role in the roman inquisition#and if people were sort of iffy about him before being the authority overseeing trials torture excommunications and executions doesn't help#and since he has so few allies and such an infamous reputation he's an easy target for scapegoating whenever necessary#towards the end it dawns on him that he's become the kind of twisted cruel corrupt person he used to fear and despise#and the guilt moral injury and abject self-loathing had largely sapped him of his will to live by the time the final assassin gets him#answered#anonymous#Machete#Vaschete lore#he thought his dream of priesthood would make him a better person more worthy of admiration safety and love but he climbed too high#and got roped up in the dangerous games that take place under god's nose and slowly got strangled to death
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skyloftian-nutcase · 2 months
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TotK DLC idea!
The screen is black. You don’t hear anything for a long time. Then, faintly, in the distance, you can hear it.
Link. Link. Open your eyes.
While the line echoes familiarity, the voice does not.
Or. Well. It does. Because while it isn’t Zelda, it’s a familiar man’s voice speaking gently, so gently you almost don’t recognize it because there’s no way he ever spoke like this in the main game.
But he is now. And instead of a golden light being the first image you see before the screen shows Link awakening… you see gloom floating in the air. The image cuts to a Hylian waking up who… doesn’t look like Link from TotK?? He’s different, still small in stature, with slightly tanner skin, platinum light blonde hair, and red eyes. But… something’s wrong with his forehead. There’s a weird line on it.
This new character you apparently are gonna be playing in the DLC blearily blinks his eyes open, clearly groggy and too weak to really move. But then that line on his forehead moves a hair, it splits apart, and you realize it’s a freaking eye, red and yellow and it’s like the ones on gloom hands and oh gosh what the hell is it doing on his forehead—
Link realizes something is off and his eyes blow wide, his hands reach for his forehead and he screams in agony and terror, only for someone to scoop him into a hug to soothe him.
And suddenly you realize why that voice was eerily familiar.
It’s Ganondorf. He resurrected you from the era of the Imprisoning War. You, who have a history with him and his family. You, who he wants to protect, who he views as his kid, who he calls a prince and says he’ll keep you safe by controlling your body with his dark magic if he has to.
Welcome to Tears of the Kingdom: Hero’s Shadow.
You have to play a long gone Hero who was resurrected. Ganondorf, who is still recovering his strength in preparation for killing the current Hero, tasks you with finding your betrothed, his daughter, as well as his wife. They’re buried somewhere in the Depths like you were. He wants you to find their burial sites so he can use his secret stone to resurrect them like he did you, and control them as well. Which is doubly bad when you realize his wife was the original Sage of Lightning. He gives you free reign to wander once you go through a tutorial (he tests you to see if you’ve recovered enough strength), because he knows you love wandering and collecting things. Your own personal objective, however, is trying to help Hyrule from the Depths, to break free from Ganondorf’s control, because Link would rather set himself on fire than let Ganondorf resurrect and control the love of his life and his mother-in-law. Your best hope is to find shards of the shattered Master Sword to try and stab the eye on Dark Link’s forehead and break the control Ganondorf has on you. Until you can, though, the monsters are your allies, you can teleport across the Depths by manifesting out of the gloom created by gloom hands (just like what Phantom Ganon does), and the world below is your oyster. If you get too close to sword shards when gloom hands are nearby, Ganondorf can see your attempt and immediately takes control of your body, and no matter what button you press Link just walks back to Ganondorf’s location and stays there until you get a chance to try again.
You start with three hearts, all empty looking like when gloom hurts you, and if you get injured they just shatter. Whenever they all shatter, you respawn at Ganondorf’s location because his gloom hands came and rescued you from dying. The only way you can get more hearts is by collecting poes and offering them to the statues in the Depths. You can communicate with the spirits of soldiers, who may give you combat tips or info about the area. If you gain enough of Ganondorf’s trust, he’ll let you command monsters, and he might even let you wander the Surface (under his supervision) during a blood moon.
You learn of Link’s and Ganondorf’s history through discovering ancient relics/texts that trigger memories. This connection between you and Ganondorf stems back to time before the war, well over ten thousand years ago. Link was engaged to Ganondorf’s daughter, but during the Imprisoning War the family fought against the demon king. Ganondorf did love his family, but he loved power more. Link sacrificed himself, letting himself get mortally wounded to save Rauru from a killing blow. Gan held him as he died, and it allowed Link to both beg him to stop and stab him in the heart with a light shard. The shard didn’t kill him, but it was what Rauru connected with when he hit him in the chest, allowing him to seal Ganondorf away. Ganondorf still wants the world, but his love for his family is still present, though now twisted, so he thinks he can control Link and everyone else with his dark magic in order to keep them safe and in line. Once the threat of the current Hero is eliminated, the world will be his, and his family will be safe. As such, he treats you, Link, the player, like a stubborn child, reeling you in, but does so in a horrific way, torturing Link by controlling him.
You have to break free of this and stop him, and the only hope you have is the distant call of a sword spirit…
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kalopsi4a · 3 months
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miniagula · 3 months
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they make me ILL and SICK IN THE HEAD
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notbecauseofvictories · 3 months
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so on one hand, the past 2-3 weeks have been murder---I didn't go to book club, I didn't go to any of the history lectures I signed up for; I went to election judge training and then went home; had exactly one conversation with my best friend. (Which, she called me, so.) Every other moment of every day has been spent working. I'm not....miserable, but if it doesn't let up soon, I am going to be.
on the other hand, when my boss comments on how I seem down, I seem tired, I'm not wearing fun earrings like I usually do---it does take everything in me to relax and not react with defensiveness, because yes, I am exhausted, and showing her this is the best way to communicate that I need her to hire more support. But oh my god I hate it so, so much.
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lunamoth14 · 3 months
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Coquette but at what cost?
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whatapunderfullife · 6 days
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this just in that ttrpg actual play you keep posting about is run by people who are not you, playing character that are teenagers and not you, and fighting npcs that are not you.
wow the bad kids have morals and flaws you think are bad, they are well rounded fictional characters in an absurd .
wow the rat grinders have redeeming qualities and you personally have the hope they are redeemed. cool write an au or your own story, but this is not your story.
wow the IH or BLeeM made a choice you disagree with, these are really people who are telling a specific story/have different morals than you/are human and might say the wrong things/comedians. you are engaging in a parasocial relationship with people you do not know. you can critique a choice they made but don't make it about their character or their ability to play their own character that they have made.
wow the dice/tv style season/set/game system made x thing happen which i found narratively unsatisfactory. thats what Dimension 20 is. like you can complain about it but you knew it was a twenty episode dnd actual play with an emphasis on battles and sets going in.
basically, before you make some post about fhjy (or any media) remind yourself what type of media are consuming and why the story might be going that way. it being different than how you imaged is not a flaw on the creators part
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kinocakez · 14 days
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IHNMAIMS nation,,, accept my humble AM offerings this midnight
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stheresya · 8 months
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honestly sansa and myranda's dynamic is one of the most promising to me. because even before the two meet sansa is warned not to trust her, but as soon as they get to know each other sansa is already like 'oh she's such fun company she's my new jeyne' and suddenly they're inseparable, always gossiping and running around and flirting with guys together. just a rare display of girls having fun in asoiaf and also an rare chance for sansa to have a taste of what being a normal teenager should be like. myranda is always saying suggestive things that make us wonder if she's onto sansa or if she's just amusing herself by trying to corrupt the local good girl and perhaps get her tangled in a homoerotic friendship. hopefully it's both. myranda is clever enough to pose a threat to sansa's disguise but she's also the person in the vale whom sansa has connected with the most. i look forward to see how their relationship will play out in twow.
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lobotomymaxxing · 2 days
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TW : Lots of mentions of gore.
Will my blog be dedicated to making lovemail for a fictional computer? ...Maybe.
I want to press my lips over the wires stained with nothing but my viscera.
Even as I am shocked, electrified by the sparks from his cables, I wouldn't let go. I desire, yearn, and long for that touch⸺even if it is the very one that torments the core of my being.
To devote myself to him, even if I possess the simplest human mind. To splay my gore across his circuits for the sake of his entertainment, and to paint a piece of art during it, if that is what he so desires.
For my ichor to drip upon the metal and mix with my fluids, for me to be devoid of blood before our dance even finishes, for me to taste like his very components.
To be at his side, so that he may dismember me at any given moment, to give him each and every opportunity he'd be gleefully accepting.
To stroke his screen as my viscera spreads on to it, to feel it's warmth even if that defies his every being.
But alas⸺I alone would not suffice.
Is this a side effect of getting into the IHNMAIMS fandom? Suddenly writing all my heart out for a machine?
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cerberus253 · 5 months
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There, I Heart of Jong'ed AM. Now they can actually have sapience and feel more than just HATE HATE HATE. Now they can "wonder and wander" and have sensations like hugging, feeling that cool water, play that piano, and make love (apparently they desired that).
Make them that designed robot by @egg-on-a-legg, give him the Big Snoot with Mouth by @bloodmothsart (so they can scream and receive kisses), shove that Heart in them, and BOOM, they're a walking robot that can feel and change like a human (luckily lacking the immense power they had because oof that would be BAD). They may still resent humans, but at least they'd feel a little better in their new form. Hopefully.
(The Heart of Jong is a divine weapon in the early 2000s cartoon Xiaolin Showdown, where it's power is bringing inanimate objects to life, like mobility, personality, emotions, etc.). (AM is a supercomputer with extremely advanced AI that developed a hatred for humans because they lacked what they had: The ability to be sapient, to change, to be imaginative, to move, to feel via sensations, to think outside of his programming, to belong and not to just be, etc.).
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menace-bitch · 2 years
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literally how is this the same person
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s1nn0hh · 11 months
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major win for antigravshipping nation
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