its so funny how much new taika ofmd content is coming out meanwhile i have not learned a single thing about the actual movie he is on the press tour for. like the man doesnt even know his own characters name but hes using the disney cash and exposure to be like heyyyyyyy does anyone wanna talk about my gay little pirates. like yes king i would love to
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I CAST A SPELL OF NOT LOOKING AT GLOBAL CHAT ON TUESDAY!
I BREW A POTION OF NOT LETTING THE AVERAGE PLAYERS PERCEPTIONS OF BEAUTY AND FATPHOBIA CLOUD YOUR MIND!
I PEER INTO THE ORB AND SEE THE JOY THAT THE NEW PLAYER CHARACTER AND ANIMATIONS BRINGS TO THIS COMUNITY!
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So I'm well aware this is probably a case of "it isn't that deep" but I love looking at all the fiddly little accessories and bits and bobs of Hoyo designs and trying to justify them. Sampo's is particularly funny, because. What even is all that dkkxjdkd
His outfit has so many straps wrapped around him, like they're restraining or holding something in to keep it from bursting at the seams, and not all of them look like they're even connected to anything! But I'd like to think they are useful in certain situations, like if Sampo takes a hit out in the Fragmentum from one of the monsters.
He's hurt, his arm is bleeding, but he is ALMOST done, he just needs a couple more things to fulfill his quota to Natasha and he doesn't want to turn around and go back now. So Sampo frees a strap from his shirt, winds it around his arm above the cut, pulls it tight with his free hand and his teeth. He'll treat it properly in a minute, once he's done scavenging.
There's also the strange chains that resemble snake spines. Given how they're way longer in his splash art and the way they wind around-
I'd like to think they can extend somehow, and Sampo can use them to scale heights. Firefly clocks him as a covert fighter without even being within 20 feet of him, so it would make sense for Sampo to have ways to get around that don't involve usual/obvious methods, like stairs. Think assassin skill sets.
He's also the only one known to be able to get between the Underground and the overworld, and while he's pretty tight-lipped about his method, having some sort of device to help traverse vertical heights is probably insanely helpful there.
And the little metal ornaments across the backs of his wrists! You can see it a bit better in his reference sheet (everyone say thanks @/dragaliareferencearchive!) as opposed to his splash art-
they aren't flat, they stick up a bit off his arms. And so I wonder if Gepard has ever gone to arrest Sampo, and found that they interfere with his handcuffs haha
The ornaments don't match, the one on his right wrist is actually shorter and doesn't extend down to the back of his hand. Which probably doesn't make it nearly as annoying for handcuffs as the left one, but it would make sense for Sampo to have them like that, since he seems to be right-handed! I think a certain proficiency in being ambidextrous is necessary to dual wield daggers like he does, but. Sampo uses his right hand to
hold his blade in his splash art
throw his blade in his skill
play/show off with his dagger in his idle
lob smoke bombs in his technique
cross over his heart when he bows
and to flip his bangs during the cutscene where he saves the trailblazers from Bronya
So a shorter guard on his right hand would help him keep his wrist's flexibility to be able to do all that unimpeded (loving the thought now that Sampo is naturally right-handed and still better with it, but he practiced constantly with his left until he could do things passably ambidextrous).
I also love them because I wonder if they're in the perfect place to help block a hit, along with the chain wrapped around his left forearm.
Like I love the image of a hired killer soundlessly sneaking up behind Sampo in some shady dark alley, knife sloooooowly raising, and then all at once, they strike!
And instead of feeling the blade sink into his back, they get the unpleasant resonating of metal-on-metal shivering up their arm and rattling their bones, because Sampo has turned around at the last second and raised his crossed his arms to let the knife glance off the guards on his wrists.
And the mercenary is left to realize that oh, they are fucked.
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as someone with absolutely TEXTBOOK bipolar disorder (i'm talking cut-and-dry, all-or-nothing episodes of mania and depression that i oscillate between like a metronome) i love comic relief sheogorath so much more than scary, creepy sheogorath.
the way i see it, if you're going to do weird shit with a guy who's supposed to be The Origin Of All Mental Illnesses Ever, the least you can do is make him funny and charming and occasionally shaped like a mischievous little kittycat in a vest. bipolar disorder makes my life hell but it also makes me way funnier than i would be if i was perfectly sane. it gives me a slightly morbid sense of humor, sure, but it lets me laugh more and compels me to find joy and whimsy in everything. crazy people being scary is OUT... crazy people being the life of the fucking party is IN.
^ THIS is what bipolar disorder means to me. i spend enough time brooding and being scary when i'm a depressive episode... as soon as the clock strikes mania i'm already breaking out the cheese-shaped confetti and baking a cake at 2am!!!
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Hey all! Sorry to post something that isn’t the reference sheets again, but I’ve noticed some hate and misinfo going around and even got a snarky + hateful Anon myself (which I’ve deleted, I don’t want it being physically on my blog to drain me of my creative spirit)
But! For the sake of calming my own Paranoia I wanted to try and clear some things up!
I’ve seen folks bring up the concept art of Star being a young Sabino being thrown around as a way to frame Wish Rewriters who write Starsha as creeps. But if you read the full page, it clearly states that was ONE of MULTIPLE concepts they played around with.
Theres even more concepts than just the ones mentioned above! Multiple different forms, human, not human, child, teen, adult, animal, abstract…
But most importantly for this post— There’s concept art of Star as a Peter Pan - esque character who is not related to Asha and (based off appearance) is close to her age.
While the art book (from what I’ve read of it) doesn’t posit they were going to be romantic, it’s not a crime to play with that in a rewrite. It’s not morally reprehensible just because they had more than one idea for Star. And it’s certainly not fair to the artists or does justice to the concept art if you only ever drag it out to bring others down (this goes for both Canon Movie Fans AND Rewriters, of course. But I’m specifically talking about Canon Movie Fans who only bring up the Sabino Star concept art to cause drama in this instance)
Anywho, that’s all! I don’t want to spark drama, and I certainly don’t want this blog to become full of it. So don’t expect posts like this often please! I just wanted to post this to try and clear some air around the fandom a bit. Its really disheartening to see some much negativity thrown around.
Whether you like the movie, dislike the movie, prefer the concepts, hate the concepts … We’re all here because we have a passion for Wish, aren’t we? Is it not enough that we all get something wonderful out of this movie, regardless of if it was a new creative outfit or not? Is it not sort of weirdly wonderful that Wish has inspired others to create and dream and write and make art?
Remember to be kind to each other, that you don’t need a moral reason to dislike something, that the block button is not reserved for just bots and bigots, and that at the end of the day- None of the concept art is canon!
Also. If it needed to be said: If you ship incest or pedophilla, you aren’t welcome here! That’s all!
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Growths?
(Okay so I drew a thing for it because it was stuck in my shitty little head here)
*Anakin walking into a council meeting with the twins strapped to his chest*
Mace *staring at Anakin and the twins*: Skywalker are those children strapped to your chest?
Anakin *play dumb*:....no. No children here.
Mace *watching as Leia pulls on Anakin's hair and Luke babbles excitedly*: Then what are they?
Anakin *he should be a better liar by now*: ....weird growths.
Obi-wan is pretending he hasn't seen anything.
Leia makes grabby hands for Obi-wan and he sits with her snuggled to his chest for the entire meeting.
Plo sits with Luke on his lap for most of the meeting.
Nobody knows when or how Plo got Luke off Anakin.
The only Council members that are concerned are Mace Windu and Ki-Adi Mundi.
"No children I see. Strange growths they are."
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