Help me, i've been looking at bleach stuff again and suddenly feel that i was too harsh on the thousand year blood war when it first published, and now im desperately scrounging for good byakuya/hisana content.
so with that in mind, what do ya think about the sternritter in bleach? personally i've always felt that for all the cool aesthetics and powers at play, they're just a bit too unsympathetic/monsterous in terms of character writing that it hurts a lot of the drama of the tybw. But also recently I have considered how that was arguably the point in terms of ywach creating an army of metaphorical and literal monsters because the value of their lives mattered so little to him that all he looked for was strength.
which... seems somewhat obvious in retrospect but still. idk, i guess all these years later bambiettas fate still unnerves me. and i wasn't even much of a fan of her until all that happened to her.
You asking this on the SAME DAY that I bought six zanpakuto at a con is HILARIOUS timing lmao
The Sternritter are in a sort of weird spot for me. There was always a hint of sympathy from me to them just on the basis of what had happened to so many Quincy by the hands of the Shinigami, and how on top of that many were under the culture Yhwach cultivated of pure-blooded Quincy needing to rule over everyone else as the strongest and if they can't live up to his exacting standards they will be considered just as worthless as impure-blooded Quincy/non-Quincy - for the majority of them it's kinda just a no-brainer that they would end up being as cruel as they are even to each other, after living in what is essentially a dog-eat-dog world filled with Uber Racism. And you can see how deeply some of the Sternritters buy into this, how even being sentenced to death or having their powers stolen from them does nothing to shake their belief in this man who stabbed them in the back. The dogmatism is engraved into some of these characters, to the point where literally nothing will make them ever see Yhwach as anything other than their leader.
Along with that, some of the Quincy, like Bazz-B and Liltotto and others, realize (at least somewhat) how shit their system was once they see how easily they are thrown away after doing everything right (or, if nothing else, never doing anything more wrong than the Quincy Yhwach chose as "the best"); they're willing to work with Shinigami to get justice against what was done to them by a leader they genuinely saw as god.
And in the middle of absolute dogmatism and rebellion, there are ones like BG9 and As Nodt, who seem to follow Yhwach not out of outright loyalty but out of a fear of death itself. Given who they're fighting (literal death gods) and who they both are as characters (As Nodt being someone who induces fear into others, BG9 being a robotic lifeform), it's definitely A Neat Choice to have these two specifically follow Yhwach not out of a sense of loyalty but out of an intense internal fear that they feel Yhwach both alleviates (by giving them the means to avoid death) and induces (by promising to kill them should they fail him).
They aren't all a monolith even with how deliberately isolated they were from pretty much all non-Quincy society, which honestly makes them pretty interesting as a total group.
But, yeah, on the other hand a lot of them don't really have much in terms of individual personality outside of cool one-liners or My Power Is My Personality. And some others have that issue and their power is just fuckin' annoying as shit and makes them inherently unlikeable GERARD. FUCK YOU GERARD HOLY GOD WERE YOU THE ACTUALLY THE WORST QUINCY EVER. There will be Bazz-B and Jugram's immensely interesting dynamic with each other, there will be Bambietta's genuinely tragic fate despite how deeply despicable she was as a character, there will be the Femritters' absolute determination to continue living and not letting anyone including Yhwach kill them... and then there's fuckin'. Pepe, the Bootleg Zommari that Kubo bought on the black market loose in an envelope. Or The Yapper who literally died in a montage and whose name no one gives a shit to remember. Some who really have nothing to them at all despite being elite enough Quincy to be given Schrift at all.
So, like. Overall I actually like them quite a bit? At least definitely as a generalized group. Individually there are some really really good stand-outs here and some really really wet farts there. And Gerard fucking sucks and I hate him
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it would be funny if when stan is bandaging up kyle he uses a bunch of like hello kitty and care bears bandaids just cause hes still mad and knows kyle wont like itjhsjsjs
STTTOOOPPP!!!! THIS MADE ME LAUGH SO HARD!
no that's So Real because i feel like raven just waves a tan stan-hand at injured!kyle all like "wait here, i'm gonna grab some Bandaids" which makes him roll his eyes so much bc stan is being annoying bc he Literally Can't Move, lol. but after a little bit, ravenstan emerges from the bathroom with something behind his back, wearing the most Devious grin on his face...jerseykyle is immediately sussed like
"okay, what's behind ya back? you know i don't like magic tricks. or surprises." then with a ~flourish~, ravenstan whips out the two boxes of hello kitty and care bear bandaids, shaking them like maracas, totally stoked, and jersey is like oh my god, STOP!!! i'm cryingg.
raven is Naught crying, however! he is having a Blast <3
( he is also...trying very hard not to Simp bc when kyle says "god" and "stop" it sounds like "gahd" and "stahp" in the jersey accent which stan thinks is soooo cute omg!!! c': smh...he is dying. They are dying. my boys NEVER fight, this is so fucking miserable!!! i hate it here!! :/ )
but ravens like "so which ones do you want?" & kyle is like "Neither!!! where the fuck are the Real Bandaids?!" and stan says "What Do You Mean? These Are The Real Bandaids." jersey is losing his Mind bc this cannot be real like "stan, i bought those for the Kids at the elementary school i'm internin' at!!! those are CHILDS bandaids!"
n stan just smiles & shrugs like…
"Well, If You're Gonna Act Like One :)''
WHICHHHHH OHHHH MY FUCKING GOOOOOD
WOORLDSTAR!!!
unbelievable, smh. kyle is literally not sure if he is aghast or attracted to this energy ( like The AUDACITY!!! ) but after a second, realizes its lowkey kind of Adorable to him so he shakes his head at stan like "you're still bad at that, yknow?" cue stan squint like "what are you talking about?" and kyle is like "Being Mean," to which stan makes...i shit you not...the LEAST scary face on planet earth & says "Shut Up" also his voice totally cracks in the middle of it, which makes kyle smile So hard that his lip splits open again, jfc. this is soooooo
kyle is being Annoying so he just raises his hands in mock defeat like "alright you scared me straight" ( as the gayest person ever ) "patch me up, nurse stan" looool the pep!style doctor pwp continues!
except its actually Really Cute bc ravenstan gets super hyper-focused again, but instead of being stressed out, he's actually kind of having a lot of fun and starts making little shapes on kyle's arms out of the bandaids ( he also has to use a fuck ton of them to even try and cover any wound on kyles body. ) but yeah he's sticking bandids all over kyle, also there's one on his cheek then stan puts another one on the other cheek and jersey is like "smh, stan there's not even a cut on that side!" and stans like "its for ur OCD" which aAAaaAa, i hope i die!!!
anyways, stans vibing, he's still making pictures out of the lil bandaids by connecting them -- he made a fake tattoo arrow heart w/ mom in the middle of it -- a skull, a couple stars, etc. tbh he is gettin Creative with it and kyle is just like eyebrow raise "enjoyin ya lil art project?" and stan just laughs and is like "yes so much" :')))) <3
...and tbh, if anyone Else was sticking a bunch of bandids on kyle and making weird shapes, he'd b super fkn pissed n want to kill them, but he's just sitting there admiring stan and His Chest Hurts. not bc he's all bruised up, but bc when stan blocked him on everything, jersey's only window into stan's life was thru tabloid articles of him on a bender, being super unhappy & like...for the first time in weeks...
Stan Is Smiling. :')
and that makes jersey kyle alight with happy touchy feelings, which, speaking of being Touchy, mid bandaiding, kyle sweeps a couple infared strands of stan’s hair behind his ear and nearly whispers “ya hair was in your eyes again.” and jersey lovingly skating his fingers across ravens forehead while talking to him in the soft, quiet, lovely voice he reserves Just For Him in special, intimate moments when they’re alone makes him blush Furiously, so he just laughs like "oh. haha. oops." looks down at his feet and does the lil stan lip bite laugh thing that he always does when he’s really nervous. which, okay: so whenever stan looks away bc he feels stupid or embarrassed, jersey kyle always gently wraps his fingers around the bottom of of stans face and his lifts his chin up so stan has to Look At Him...wHew!
but anyways, jersey does it By Accident bc he’s so used to doing it, and stans eyes get so wide and they’re so pretty and blue and his bottom eyelashes are so long and kyle wants to kiss him SO BAD!! so naturally he’s staring at stans lips and the stupid freaking skull hand lip ring which is so enticing and mesmerizing to him that he, in the heat of the moment, accidentally again, drags his thumb really slowly across ravenstans bottom lip, breathing hard.
this surprises the fuck out of stan and he’s super flustered so he makes a tiny breathy gasp noise and Ohhh My God You Guys when i tell you that made jerseykyle Feral like he was trying SOOO hard not to Jump Him, the tension was CRAZY! jfccc. like i Swear to Gahd they were abt to Make Out skhdlksdks. like it was about to be down absolutely fkn Horrendous in there!!!
...but at the very Last second, stan just pulls away and is like ah-aha! A-All Done! n closes the bandaid boxes lookin So Stressed Out.
WE WERE SOOOOOO CLOSE FML!! BOOOO
RAVESEY DIVORCE HELL IS A PLACE!!!!
DIE, CRY, HATE THE RAVESEY DIVORCE :///
-uncle nina, not enjoying the toxic yaoi
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Just finished playing sb ruin!
STEEL WOOL YOU HAD ONE JOB how did you make the plot holes worse.
Three characters have just EVAPORATED two were just environmental hazards at BEST and only two got any sort of character development!!!!
Literally the only new characters were a) the protagonist (expected, wanted) and b) the antagonist (CONTEXT??? LORE?? HELLO?!). 'Oh it's been down there for a really long time' HAS IT NOW?? HAS IT?? BECAUSE IT SURE WASN'T THERE BEFORE. WE WENT THERE AND IT WASN'T THERE.
The voice acting was great, I will say that. Every actor gave 110% and it really brought the whole thing to life. The set building too. And the glitchy effects!
Unfortunately the story completely fell through again.
At the start, it felt pretty clear where it was going to go. 'Gregory' was directing us down to the old afton fight area, there was rabbit/vanny graffiti everywhere, there was a strange rabbit mask that turned the world purple and glitchy and let you walk through solid objects occasionally, instructed by a gaslighting little AI that knew more than it was letting on.
Given the way it lined up with the gargantuan plot holes in security breach, and it was free dlc for the game marketed as fixing those holes, it was fairly obvious it'd be a story with vanny as the final boss, having not given up on her goal and possibly still kidnapping children. Cassie would potentially face mind control or sensory brainwashing from the mask, we'd get attacked by the broken animatronics, maybe put them to rest or cure them enough to escape the pizza plex, and at the end we'd find out how Gregory was being impersonated, a boss fight almost certainly in vr against whatever weird blue robo bunny kept staring at us (it doesn't even do anything???) and vanny irl, Cassie would stop their plans and/or burn the pizza plex down the rest of the way. Meet up with Gregory again at the end, possibly with a freddy head, I wasn't picky.
You know, closure.
Instead, the plot was... Essentially nonexistent, just as much a run quest cycle as sb despite the linear progression and lack of teleporting animatronics, somehow. The boss 'fight' was completely divorced from the rest of the game, all but roxy and the da were entirely absent of any character development, both of which were relevant for about three seconds.
The lift ending was a cheap shock value ending which only left more questions than answers. The other two, which we googled, were equally free of things like 'explanations' and 'filled plot holes' and 'context' and 'closure', and all of which were dependant purely on random actions in the final scene we were given no hints to knowing about, unlike sb. By the end we were left in shock, fury, confusion and betrayal, which isn't a great note to end your game on.
All in all, while eclipse was a pleasant surprise and roxys five new lines of dialogue were sweet and a bit sad, ruin managed to be like security breach in all the worst ways, and didn't even have any funny glitches to laugh at. Loading screens were insanely long, enough we once ate a full meal during three back to back ones and went on our phones instead of waiting patiently, AND regular. All deaths were to the slippery catwalk in gator golf or frustration making us reckless, and we had to get out the walk throughs just to navigate certain areas. Though we were told we were invisible to most animatronics in the mask no one had told any of them. Bar the endos every single one could spot and chase us in the mask. We got softlocked several times and had to restart. The weird robot rabbit never got any context or explanation and didn't even do anything to our knowledge?? Summoned the animatronics maybe but even if you didn't take the mask off and walked through him he wouldn't do anything. Got jumpscared ONCE and then we continued on our merry way.
Also the game crashed twice.
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