#dont live in her shadow.

[block-of-fish-cubes]

dear mother

#δ帽子 #agott arkrome #agott #witch hat fanart #wha #wha fanart #witch hat atelier #yes i hand drew all of those seals #no half of them dont make sense #yes it took me hours #agott constantly living in the shadow of her mother and her family name #poor baby

[tollsoftheclockwerkbelle]

what gets me about the shadow/maria dynamic is that it takes the trope of "weak helpless girl dies for a tragic plot device" and subverts it

Maria wasn't helpless in her fate. She did have a choice. Shadow would have been strong enough to protect them both (Where else could they even go? Would he need to hurt someone?) but instead she made a choice to protect Shadow.

Shadow's story isn't tragic because he failed to protect Maria and now spends the rest of his life tormented over it. Shadow's story is tragic because he is the strongest creature alive, but raw power isn't always enough, and his loving friend made a sacrifice to let him go hoping she was giving him a chance to learn compassion because she was strong!

Maria's purpose isn't that she's a weak little girl who dies. Maria's legacy is that she protects the strongest creature alive, and teaches it the strength of love.

Her character gives the moment purpose, not the other way around. Her willingness to die so he can go free, asking him to use his strength to protect the people of Earth, despite everything. It's her proof of love that gives Shadow's burden that kind of extreme weight. Shadow will live forever and with so much limitless power, would life be easy to discard without a second thought? Not Maria's. Not when she asked him to protect it. That weight will remind him, always.

#shadow the hedgehog #maria robotnik #sonic movie 3 #ill just be really super bummed if they miss the point of her death ig #dont dismiss her as just the sad little girl who gets killed and decide that isnt good enough for her character #it can mean SO much if you are big brained. dont waste the moment by pretending it shouldnt happen #i love “maria lives" aus. i will eat that shit up ALL DAY #but THEY feel so good because i know THIS is what she did for him. this is how much she loved him #ok?

[starmist]

I genuinely believe Naksu haunts the narrative. Her actions and existence as Naksu heavily impact the entire story. Her past, the life she lived and the shadow of it in Mudeok. But we don't actually know any of it because Naksu is not in the story.

Like. What she lost as Cho Yeong is something that we are never allowed to forget, the loss of her body, her powers, her freedom, and her impending death as a soul shifter hangs over Mudeok's head like guillotine.

All the while we don't actually know the Shadow Assassin Naksu, she died in the first episode, as soon as the story began. Other than training and killing (soul shifters) what kind of person was she when she didn't have to rely on another person else or hide or live as someone else? We don't know and we don't ever learn any of that.

Still, her absence is the plot, yet her former existence as Naksu influences everything; Yul's actions and what she was to him, Jang Uk's goal of returning her powers, the revelation of soul shifters to Park Jin, Jang Gang's departure, Jin Mu's accomplishments, the King's Star even.

Everything is about her existence but she doesn't actually exist at all anymore.

#before anyone disagrees she declares naksu dead in ep 5 or something and tell yul the person he knew no longer exists in ep 19 #naksu is dead but the shadow of her hangs over everything #what could have been and what wasn't is mourned in nearly episode #alchemy of souls #also im not saying one life is better than the other but there is always this sense of loss in mudeok that is never forgotten by the story #SHE DESERVED TO LIVE AS HERSELF #Also for me its the tragedy of all of it that makes the show so good #like dont get me wrong im certifiably insane over the romance and would be very happy with the ending offered but even the then the best pa #*the happy ending #is that #she escaped the circle of tragedy shes been trapped in #and has so many people that she loves and cares for now and how those ppl care for her just as much #this post is brought to you by: my mutual and i finally finishing our rewatch

[sonknuxadow]

sorry but im like the worlds biggest hater when it comes to future/next gen au stuff for sonic characters . and its not that i have an inherent problem with people doing those types of aus/stories its just that i havent seen many people do it in a way that isnt boring and also actually fits the characters. like they either make almost everyone cishet and go with all the "default" ships and/or put most if not all the characters in a married with kids situation even if it doesnt fit them or something else would be more interesting. and they also just completely ignore the concepts of adoption or single parents or people who just dont want to get married or have kids . and its like why are you all so boring with this why do you insist on shoving everyone into little nuclear family boxes even if it doesnt work for them as a character especially when non traditional family situations are such a common thing in sonic come on

and i think that out of all the characters sonic is one of the ones who gets it the worst with this sort of thing. with the way he acts in canon having him "settle down" into a "traditional" married with kids lifestyle once hes an adult feels like the most forced and out of character thing ever. he would not fucking say that etc etc

#especially if its with amy . mandatory disclaimer that i love amy #but sonic eventually agreeing to marry her in the future is like the worst possible ending to their whole situation #its bad for both of their characters i think . for multiple reasons #also if its with shadow . like im not saying him and sonic could never date or anything . #just that i cant see them living together and getting married and all that super serious and committed stuff #i guess you could argue that sonic not caring about romance and stuff could change when hes older since hes only 15 #but . i kinda Dont Like the implication that growing up/becomign more mature = suddenly wanting to get married and stuff #also am i the only one who thinks its unrealistic for everyone in the existing cast to end up marrying someone they already know right now #like im not saying its impossible for some of them to end up getting with eachother #its just that . most of them are teenagers or otherwise really young and they have so much time to meet other people #what if rouge's future wife is some random person we've never seen onscreen before huh . ever thought of that

[poisonousquinzel]

sweetie im so sorry you're not being allowed to flourish in live action and kill that damned clown, they don't deserve you

#harley quinn #harleen quinzel #dc comics #tw abuse mention #bop was good certainly but its still not like an amazing telling of her story #none of those three have actually finished the job. tss at least had a scene where she references him and his treatment #but its never flat out stated. they just cant say hes physically abusive and that he hits her for some reason #bop literally could have done that in just the opening alone #they could have just told her actual story and not erase her jewishness and make it clear how the relationship was #because if you don't know it's easy to take it as a casual relationship breakup so sure shes sad #they could have made it so the ending of the animated section merged with the live action and have the moment when she gets kicked out #actually be a nod to the Mad L0ve ending. they dont even need jared. #just have a dude in a green wig vaguely shown in the shadows looking out of a broken window and pan down to Harley on the ground #have her go through her break up woes but make it so she's visibly healing from injuries cause by him #its literally so simple ffs

[sapphic-woes]

Karlach and Astarion literally cannot have a happy ending if they... actually do good and stay true to themselves. Wtf.

#im. a bit annoyed #like karlach? probs gonna fight in avernus for the rest of her life JUST to be free #Astarion? he'll live in isolation in the shadows and always in fear because he is ALWAYS afraid #all because karlach wanted to save the fucking world and Astarion thought killing 7000 victims was a bit too much; even for him #like????????????? #cmon shadowheart choosing the truth can literally reunit her family???!!! #wyll can reconcile with his dad and be a duke??? (presumably) #gale i dont even know. ig mystra got infonite weave so unless she literally decides to kill him hes good #and lazeal will carry Orpheus' legacy and revolt against vlaakith like a BALLER #but ASTARION AND KARLACH LITERALLY GAIN NOTHING IN COMPARISON????? THEY ARE BACK TO SUFFERING???? #FUCK!!!!! #oh #bg3 spoilers

[hanzajesthanza]

angouleme staying in beauclair with the rest of the company does strike some chord of yearning within me. it's reminiscent of some pleasant childhood memories "back when it was good," (if you're familiar with the sentiment).

of going on a short vacation with family, curious and new to the setting (even if one had been there once before), just looking for fun and totally carefree, no responsibilities... staying in a nice place, to be treated nicely for a while. and lots of free food! (and maybe not, for a while, coming to understand the emotional distress going on behind the curtain)

#c: angouleme #the elbow-high diaries #it's also fun how she really takes to it like a fish to water #cahir: worried about nilfgaard catching him | milva: depressed because of her injuries and loss | regis: nervous about being identified #angouleme: RUNNING AROUND THE PALACE LOOKING FOR SCANDAL #100% she was like come on regis let's explore this bitch and he was like 👉👈 idk im scared and she was like OF WHAT WE LIVE IN A PALACE NOW #we're fucking NOBILITY no one is gonna get on our asses for SHIT #'why not one of the others' 'milva is saying her ribs ache and cahir's busy with the baronesses' #'but but i dont have a shadow' 'its WINTER. NO ONE has a shadow it's so damn overcast' #'and dogs?' 'ill bark right back at them' #it is actually my headcanon that as theyre walking in the street once a dog starts at regis and angouleme woofs at it #literally her creativity to solving problems is unmatched

[aikotos]

I find funny how the Ultimax manga seems to like both Aigis/Mitsuru and Labrys/Mitsuru, they can share a gf I guess.

Aigis & Mitsuru - Elina002 on dA

Labrys - Xelandis on dA

I didn't take any funny mid-rendering screenshot, but I can show the editing process I follow

1 - Raw render

2 - First editing on CSP. I like to use gradient maps to unify the colors. I correct any mistakes on the render as well since they love clipping & Cycles loves doing weird stuff to the textures/lighting.

3 - Editing colors on Lightroom & Line Camera. Since they're apps, they deep fry my renders hard, but it's a neccesary evil because otherwise the colors would look like shit on mobile (my laptop displays colors differently). Can we go back to use internet exclusively on PCs?

4 - I try to un-deep fry the image by using surface blur on PS. I don't care much about it as long as the image looks fine at the dashboard size though.

#beep beep sandwich #persona 3 #mitsuru kirijo #aigis persona 3 #labrys p4 #mitsuru is the only girl i dont ship aigis with actually #that one panel of shadow aigis+mitsuru lives on my #head rent free though #i dont ship labrys w her either; but she looks so #smitten over mitsuru in the manga all the time; its cute lol #render

[hexados-on-a-string]

the only reason hydron didnt live is bc if he was part of the brawler's interdimensional found family, that'd involve him getting a character arc on account of actually having a support system and also the fact that zenoheld is dead and they didn't wanna write that so they just killed off hydron. this lives in my brain though.

#he would be part of the found family the brawlers just let anyone in #they were gonna let mylene and shadow join despite the fact that they literally had just tried to kill mira #spectra and gus are part of the brawlers and dan literally calls both of them family #do you think they're not going to look at hydron. with his huge amount of issues. and NOT let him be part of their found family???? #i think if hydron lived. i think gus and him would end up like brothers but like acting like actual siblings #keith and mira are too nice to each other #i need gus and hydron to insult each other. then go into an autism echolalia feedback loop. then try to go gaslight someone. #thats based on irl experience with my own younger sibling #we are menaces and gus and hydron would also be menaces to society too #other than that uhhh honestly i think itd be funny if he was friends with julie. i think all subterra brawlers should be friends w julie #by law julie is friends with every subterra brawler. ur a subterra brawler and u think u arent gonna end up friends with her? ur wrong #i kinda wanna see him interact with fabia in some way but idk how. it could be interesting tho. #not hydron related but id love to see ren and gus interact before the events of gundalian invaders. #i think gus would be sus abt him but like not actually care too much bc that's the human's problem not his #i think they could have an interesting conversation about loyalty and shit idk #i dont know toooooo much abt ren my memory is spotty but i just think it would be neat #anyways i was having an autism moment im not sorry this is just self indulgent

[thewinedarksea]

the sith campaign ✦ act five - cato nemoidia

even from space, cato nemoidia gleams. a small, clouded-white planet, of mountains and icy oceans, its only concession to civilization is the city of cato nemoidia—a city shaped in a handprint, a golden bruise on the flesh of it, shining bright and vivid. 

...

where naboo was growing lush and warm, a living, breathing, colorful-skinned organism in its own right, cato nemoidia is pure bone structure—pared down and brutally lovely, all golden-roofed houses and spare white streets and a cleanliness so intense it borders on sterile. jeweled palaces glitter in the distance. citizens, of the few out and about, wear white and gold and splashes of blue and purple and green.

#no one tell me this isnt what cato nemoidia looks like i dont care lyrus put his hand on that world and swore it would be his and that #carnadine couldnt touch it and the whole world cannot not live in his shadow #where the group finally put the map pieces together and one left to become a sith lord and one left to rule a station and one left to #become someone who could be looked upon by his old master and seen and fen looked out into the stars and continued her journey #(and sumi went with her) #mine #* #dnd #my writing #sithcampaign

[meowsticmarvels]

constantly thinking about weird fucked up persona aus but mostly on the brain rn is p3/4 stuff. like for one a swap with the IT and SEES (like location and premise and all that) would be crazy but for reasons that I'll elaborate on in the tags it's not perfect. but what IS crazy to me and had been rotating in my brain is. the concept of SEES having shadows.

for a while I've been thinking of an au where the answer features their shadows. granted I haven't played/watched the answer but the concept is certainly really insane because the characters do have enough issues for it to be crazy. even by that time. there'd be general overarching themes of grief and loss between them all but also individual things (that some of them do mostly get over but still. this would be insane mid-game too) -- junpei's jealousy, akihiko's need to not lose anyone ever again, mitsuru's guilt and feeling like she has to make up for the kirijo group's shortcomings, etc. would be a hell of a time and I'd love to write this concept if I can thinknof things. talk to me abt ur thoughts on p3 characters having p4 esque shadows im thinking

#trevor.txt #persona 3 #p3 #persona 4 #p4 #the reason i say the swap would be difficult is bc the characters of each are built around the themes of their games and the locations #theyre in #like sees being bigger and having characters who have parent issues + lost or do lose someone during the story #like even a member of sees gets killed off!!!!!!! #whereas p4 is in like. a smaller rural town #and most of its characters have more of their issues lie in public perception of them #like how people view them ans such. thats not rly a problem for p3's cast (well for some. but to a Lesser extent) #and also the p4 cast we dont get info on all their home lives #yosuke's is just alluded to once or twice because of his manager dad. chie's got no mention. yukiko's the heir to the inn #kanji's dad's dead and his moms nice. idk abt rise's other than her grandma. and naotos parents are dead #comparing to the p3 cast thats Much less info #so ig my point isnjust that a lot of reworking would havr to be done. but it would be insane i promise #p3 shadow au also goes hard oh mannnnn #shadow akihiko bringing up shinjiro or even miki would be the death of me. Id just Die right there

[greensaplinggrace]

rusalye should have killed everyone in that cave

#so maybe i am in love with rusalye #WHAT OF IT #she is my babygirllll #alina and mal i love you but this is the sacrifice i am willing to make 😔😔 #myramblings #shadow and bone #sab #grishaverse #rusalye #the sea whip #alina starkov #but also when alina killed rusalye.... #she looked SO good #maybe alina should have killed everyone in that cave too #😔😔 #she should just live there with mal and rusalye #her and her amplifiers <3 #anyways dont mind me im completely sane about morozova's amplifiers

[venussaidso]

The way I'm gonna be so pissed off if I don't get at least more than one, or two, fight scenes of a (rightfully) overpowered Naksu with her sword in hand. I could've just stopped watching if I didn't care that much about her arc and her reputation as an ASSASSIN, literally the most POWERFUL MAGE AND THE YOUNGEST AT THAT .

If I watch the entire thing and I don't get what I want, I want my motherfucking money back!

#alchemy of souls #alchemy of souls light and shadow #alchemy of souls 2 #go youn jung #naksu #cho yeong #naksu my baby im sorry if they made you not live up to your title as the most powerful mage and assassin #they're clearly scared of your power girl #and its pure sexism #yes the writers are sexist if i dont get my Naksu scenes #soften the girl all you want #but her sword and powers are BACK IN S2 #go yoon jung

[lonelyquail]

I know I've infodumped this before but not as its own post so let's go. what I'd do if I was in charge of making a live a live anime. I am ignoring the fact that I desperately want it to be a musical because that's not going to happen so ask me about my Separate thoughts about what I'd do if I was in charge of making a The Day The Night Slept The Album-ening of live a live.

ok so my Basic Idea is I'd let the show have a 13 episode (maybe 14? does that happen?) first season. I assume each of the first 7 chapters would need about 2 episodes, but I can see some that end in one like wild west or Definitely present day. I could also see some taking longer though, like distant future and near future. it'd even itself out I think to average to 2 episodes each.

it'd be an anthology series basically. a bunch of non-connected stories, but tied together by one key point. a narrator. see I have a Framing Device idea here and it's that we know odio from the very beginning, but never see his face or know who he is. this is very inspired by princess tutu here but here the stories are actively being Read by somebody outside of it, and occasionally he takes the reins to bend the retelling a bit, likely in the chapter boss' favor. note that while the anime is actually Playing and showing the characters, if the narrator does decide to kick in the characters will likely not be doing what he says they are, and they Definitely cannot hear him. it's an unreliable narrator story, but to the point where it's pretty easy to tell that he's biased. in practice how this probably would go would be like in princess tutu, occasionally when a character reaches a point that justifies his own philosophy in some way he'll cut in and monologue about The Nature Of Man Bringing Only Tragedy or whatever the fuck. also maybe cutting in to give the chapter villains some sympathy for the devil, maybe at the end to close each story out as he turns the last page? I dunno I don't want to be Too obvious but like. odio does sound pretty damn evil by default so maybe it'd be obvious anyway.

anyway! that's season one. anthology of short stories. on the final episode I'd leave it hanging on him picking up one last book or something, but I'd let that be told in either a short season (again, do these happen?) or a movie ??? anyway that would start out with the middle ages chapter, which I don't think will have any narration? I'm iffy on this? it'd be cool to see his retrospective thoughts on his own story but also, that's a bit heavy-handed, I'm not sure. anyway the thing is that around the end, when oersted breaks into his soliloquy at the archons roost. there I think we'd get a sort of cut-in, as halfway through our narrator starts reading it out himself. shut book camera pan Blonde Man Jumpscare I think that's the best way to go about the "oh shit the villain is the protag of that story" reveal. also it'd be fun. anyway that'd be either the beginning chunk or the first two? episodes?

from here I'm not Exactly sure how to frame it because all of the endings are Very important, but also kind of. happen at the same time? I do not know how to do this. the easy way would just be to have it remain anthology-ish, and have say the boss rush version of the dominion of hate be one story while the rest is another, but I don't think that fits into the framing device well. mm?? I have no idea. I think we're good without the bad ending of the dominion of hate happening as long as the "if you kill this dude you'll end up just as fucked as him" message gets conveyed in some way or another but I don't think we can skip the whole other version of the DoH.

maybe we can play it less as Actually Happening and more a what if scenario?? more odio just. Fucking Talking Alone Again about what Could be if not for Man's Folly^tm. I think that'd get the point across, be a good intro for the rest of the dominion of hate and stay in universe but it would Not have the added bonus of "ok you kicked around a bunch of jrpg protagonists now what. did that make you feel any better" unless we tried to hammer that home in a different way. and oh boy do I not have a single idea what to do with the armageddon ending. maybe instead just have him mention how if he and the other odios were Still denied he'd have the page burnt entirely or something. maybe at the end. shrugs. there's not a ton I can do here.

eh. anyway the actual dominion of hate would likely be more based in the protagonists than anything, likely picking a main character (Probably Akira) and not having a Narrator as much as just being in the mc's head from time to time. though I Do like the idea of odio still being there Attempting to nudge the protags and them being actually able to hear him this time, it'd have to be used infrequently. or not at all. there is a certain merit to them not knowing anything about him until getting to the archons roost but Us knowing a lot. I dunno. anyway I think this adaptation would have a lot more interactions between the protagonists (desperately needed) and I think that'd take up most of the runtime there, we can incorporate the trials if we want to (trial of heart is necessary to be sure but the rest really aren't, so it can be a good dungeon for the whole team to go through and have some more plot-motivated character moments) but I think Getting The Band Together might already take a good amount of time if we don't rush past good chances for character building or interaction. I want it to feel like the mcs Do actually start to be a team that is the thing I have the Most problems with about the game, though in doing so that will mean we're gonna have to do away with the 4 character party thing unless we want to have them split up sometimes. that's details. the point is that it's going to be All the mcs together most of the time and hopefully it doesn't feel crowded.

anyway from there it kind of goes as expected, except with the aforementioned (we don't need to have the bad ending be its own thing but we do need to mention the consequences). maybe somebody of the team Does try to grant oersteds wish before being held back or something. for similarities reasons I say oboro but this can be wiggled. anyway I also think around the actual Ending ending you'd get more than just one monologue from the mcs, you'd probably get more of like. an actual Conversation I guess? the mcs building off of each other's points to oersted? I dunno I'm spitballing here I do think it would Start Off with akira's ending though and then somebody scruffs him and continues off from there. I dunno the important thing is that everybody should get a word in or perhaps a hug in in the case of pogo. I think that's it though? I probably won't return to the plot device to show like another book being closed or whatever that is purely A Plot Device so it'd be weird to have it come back after oersted was Thoroughly Dead. I will say though if the live a live anime has an ED it's gotta have sin of odio in the A that's the law.

#live a live spoilers #That Was Long #anyway uh #i like ptutu #also if this was an anime i think id let lei be the final mc of the imperial china chapter #mostly for party balance (i trust the writers to not fuck up her character because Shes Girl) #but also because the way she relates to oersted is fun so i wanna keep that for the ending #i think the recruit order isnt Entirely relevant so id probably just go with whatever fits the game's pacing best #like if I were akira id probably start with trying to go to what looks most like it might be inhabited being the castle #and masaru and cube are good characters to pick up at the beginning anyway. #from there theyd probably go to the archons roost pick up oboro and realize the damn doors locked #so theyd then maybe pick up pogo along the way to brion and meet lei there. and then sundowns somewhere #i assume youd get like flashes of sundown through the whole thing. i personally like the thought of #akira/the team getting ambushed and whoever ambushed em just suddenly getting Shot from the shadows #and everybody else being ????????? #idk im spitballing here. sundown being the last to join but being Seen throughout makes the screentime balance a bit more even #though i dont like lei being so late in #i assume trial of heart would be after everybody had joined though so thatd be a little bit more time to get to know everyone #vee shut up #oh shit i just remembered u need cubes battery from the Brion Mountain #maybe akira would go to there earlier. i dunno. oboro being introduced later wouldnt be detrimental to him #hes pretty much what it says on the tin so it wouldnt be a total loss for him to miss some extra screentime

[sonknuxadow]

i think most of amys physical differences from other hedgehogs could so easily explained by her either being half echidna or living in a human city leading to her adopting a lot of human mannerisms and fashions and stuff. and the theory i believe entirely depends on how im feeling that day

#i dont think sega actually intended this though i think she just looks nothing like sonic or shadow or silver #because they wanted her to be the cute girly one. which its fine for her to be cute and girly #but why does that have to mean getting rid of a bunch of her hedgehog traits #why cant she be cute and girly and also spiky #anyway i kinda like the half echidna amy theory paired with her being knuckles' cousin or half sister or something #how that would work out timeline wise idk. but i feel like its not impossible #i think if they were gonna canonize one of these though then id want it to be the thing about living among humans

[miss-mossball]

I had a dream I could hear you singing in the night. I wondered if it was for me, but I never wanted to interrupt and ask

#mic x bun #rou's amazing ocs #my ocs #bunny lapin #mic the microphone #shadows #doodle heaven #i succumbed to a nap and it was fluffy af #mic belongs to roulie but i headcanon stuff for him and roulie stamps it with the 'yup thats canon' mark #so tonight i hc that bunny never heard mic sing bc her dumb brother does all the lead vocals for the band #and bunny was like u///u im in love w someone who sings actually ur guys band sucks sorry <3 #itd be so funny if she just kept falling in love w mic and never fuckin knew #real Accurate Bunny Hours 🙄 #i dont remember what instruments mic can use so i assume he can do Any and All #also do the puppes and tolberts live close? who knows #but since dianas home is an apartment building on top of a 1920s shop #i assume the tolbert bakery is much the same