See picking a main or a faction to play or whatever is IMPOSSIBLE when you want it to align with your current fixation and that changes sometimes several times a day. However, I have identified a common point between two characters whom I consistently came back to when I played their game: both Abathur in HotS and Argagarg in Fantasy Strike are characters where you're CONSTANTLY pushing buttons and doing stuff. If you stop clicking you die. Thus I have concludes that to find a good main I need to find a character that lets me be hyperactive
Because it’s easy to think “well we did this way back when. They DEFEATED DELILAH!” This should be done right?
They defeated Delilah. While Launda was trapped in the tree. They did.
And I think anyone who has ever had a loved one struggle with addictions or an abusive relationship can agree on one thing : you can’t fix it for them.
They have to HAVE TO fight it themselves and choose to walk away themselves.
She can’t be trapped in a tree this time. She has to fight Delilah herself.
Sorry to tell you this baby. but if your little fantasy story uses the word July, you done gone and canonized the Roman empire. Sorry bout it, but that's just how it shakes out sometimes, big boy.
My biggest flaw as a gamer I think is wanting very badly to play games that require a significant time or money investment to get into a new playable character/army/thing while knowing excruciatingly well that I could not stick to the same character/army/thing for more than a couple of days even if you pointed a physical gun at my skull
Like I want to play fighting games but any time I get into a new one I'm like "Okay I'm gonna play the beginner shoto character to learn the systems and controls! Actually no this character is way cooler (and also way harder in every conceivable way). Wait I watched a video about zoners I now want to hit people from fullscreen even if it's gonna make me lose friends. Wait I just remembered how fucking hype it was when I played Rook and Midori in Fantasy Strike and managed to do my grappler thing on stream, I HAVE to play this game's grappler-
And since most fighting games require a minimum time investment before you can actually play a new character with intentionality and so have fun playing the "actual" character, I end up never going deep enough to get to the deeper, cooler stuff (or just stagnating and stilting my growth as a player in games where you can pick up and play anyone)
This also applies to Yu-Gi-Oh! (though this is partly based on my theory that YGO is a half fighting game disguising as a full card game) since even discounting the resource investment necessary to build a deck on one of the official clients, trying out decks on simulator is exhausting when you have to learn the rules of a whole new game every time. I really wanted to try Resonators but these combo lines are way too long
Perhaps the worst offender though might be Warhammer from back when I was on the brink of getting into it and thinking about which army to pick, because that was a fucking impossible choice. I had to factor in how cool the models looked, how they played on the table including if they had any specific rules that I really wanted to play with, their lore because although Drukhari have some of the coolest models in the games their lore is the sole reason that kept me from actually considering them AND the contents of the Start Collecting box because that's what I was going to start with??? I ended up picking Tau but even through the process of building them I was thinking about Necrons, Tyranids, Knights, AdMech, Adeptus Custodes, some flavor of Space Marines and Death Guard. (also don't get me started on AoS, I wanted to play EVERY army in that game)
so if freshman year was an 80s coming-of-age movie and sophomore year was a road trip movie, i think it's safe to say that junior year is a straight up slasher
Bard-aby <3 except he's only loosely a bard bc i don't subscribe to absolutes <3
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BARNABY WITH PANTS??? BLASPHEMY!!! however this is a (dnd-inspired) fantasy au so. pants! loose pants tucked into modified boots because no one can tell me No!
based off of Clown's pokemon au human Barn, it seems like he might be a bit of a jewelry guy! he was wearing rings! and had an earring! also i think Barn just looks great w/ some extra shinies, yk yk
since ties aren't really a Thing in fantasy settings, i combined the iconic pattern w/ his vest for a two-in-one. then suspenders bc they fuck severely! his belt buckle is a bone both as a nod to the pattern on his tie / house decoration, and to go along with how Wally has an apple buckle! besties stay twinning!
you can't see it but on his other side he has his pack & his smoking pipe holster, which attaches to his belt! it's very high quality leather that he spent so much money on. his pipe is important to him - he carved it himself out of wood from an important tree from his childhood, so he wants it to be properly stored & protected! he has two kinds of tobacco for it - normal, and magic tobacco that essentially allows him to cast minor spells w/ the smoke
the feathers on his hat are from Ms. Beagle! in my mind he left the farm to go adventuring on a bit of a bad note, but his mama made sure to give him a couple feathers to take with so that she'd always be close <3
he keeps his claws blunt so that he doesn't accidentally scratch people/things, and so that he can play stringed instruments without cutting the strings. while i imagine for this au he plays a wide range, he prefers Loud Handheld Instruments that allow him to sing along. so in mind he has an Accordion here! loud! jaunty! but i imagine he also keeps a recorder in his pack for when Frank needs annoying. (he did have a lute, but he broke it over someone's head in the act of defending Wally's honor)
im still trying to pin down the right balance of colors for his outfit, but! for a little au tidbit - all of his spots are the same two blues as his ears. in this im imagining that he, at a young age, learned a very basic cosmetic spell that allowed him to change his spots color to mimic Ms. Beagle's! he wanted to look like his mama! but by the time he's in his late 20s he no longer changes his spots
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