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heyyy I just saw your rant and f*ck those guys who steal your edits and try to make it look like its theirs. anywaysss I just have to say that your edits are sooooo good and I was wondering how you make them look so good. I've been wanting to try to do some edits for myself and my wallpapers lol but I just can't make them look as good when I crop them and all that stuff. really hope you see this ☺️
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Hello Anon :)
First of, thank you for your BIG compliment on my edits ^_^ I put time and effort in all of them but i don't think they're that special compared to some other creators!
I won't go in too much detail since my English ain't that good :D (especially when explaining things)
The best quality to start with is with ingame (cinematic) footage. If you, for example, take screenshots from youtube videos try and go for the highest resolution. If you're going for ingame screenshots, you can adjust the game settings (aka higher graphics). Don't ask me how tho, i have no idea what i'm doing.. i just tune it until i like it.
Choose a photo editor, there are some you can find online and are free to use. There are many tools you can use. For me it depends on the shot i want to edit. Some need a bit of editing, some alot. I play with the lighting, sharpening, softening etc. It is really up to you how much you wanna edit a screenshot.
Save your edit as .png if possible, it helps with the quality.
Maybe you already knew these steps ;D Atleast i hope it's somewhat useful. Goodluck!
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mysmashplaythroughs · 3 months
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Pokemon Gen 1 Semi-Playthrough (Part 1)
Overview.
So this post is going to be different from my usual layout for the site, the reason is because I felt given just how many Pokemon there are and how they make up almost their own category when it comes to items, it’d be best to do a big post going over each generation. The reason I’ve skipped ahead to now when it comes to this rather than carrying on with the Fighter posts is because with the upcoming shutdown of the Wii U and 3DS online I wanted to make sure I got all the Pokemon I need sorted out in advance, there’s no other series that will particularly suffer from the shutdown on my list so I felt it was best to get this one done now. I would like to preface this thing by saying I am a casual Pokemon fan, I’ve never been into the competitive scene although I’m more aware of things like EV training etc than I was in the past, but I am just going over my opinions in this and various memories I have of each Pokemon etc, this isn’t a walkthrough or guide of any kind. This post has ended up being a lot longer than I expected and for Gen 1 specifically I realise it will have the largest amount of Pokemon, so due to this I will be splitting this post into multiple parts as mentioned in the title.
For what Pokemon will appear in these posts, it will be a mixture of every Pokemon to get represented in the Smash Bros series except the Fighters who will continue to get their own posts when I reach them. (This goes for cases where a Pokeball Pokemon became a fighter later in the series also.) In this post there will be Pokemon who appear from the Pokeball Item in various entries in the series, Pokemon who physically appear in the background of stages, Pokemon who are represented by Spirits, Pokemon who are represented by Trophies and even Pokemon who only appeared in the intro movie for Super Smash Bros Melee or as a background in Pokefloats. I’ve drawn the line finally at Pokemon who are simply mentioned, when looking through Trophy descriptions throughout the series many Pokemon will get evolutions mentioned such as Totodile’s Trophy mentioning Croconaw. I have gotten screenshots of every Pokemon I have ingame, but for pictures from Smash Bros I haven't managed to get pictures of every Pokemon ingame yet. When it comes to certain ones (for example ones from Smash 64) I am going to see if later I can either get a screenshot somehow (Smash 64 on Switch would be handy...) or if not look into getting the original sprites just to have an image of some kind. I credit the sources of the images as usual at the end of this post.
I have two things I have attempted to do with this, the first is to make the Pokemon as close to their Smash Bros appearances as possible, which means teaching them moves used in Smash, catching them in regular Pokeballs (with the occasional Masterball) and making sure they have the same appearance. The second is because of the feature in Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon to take photos of Pokemon with unique backgrounds depending on the region they’re from, I’ve attempted to catch every Pokemon in its native region. This took a very long time and I was not entirely successful. At the time of writing this, I am still trying to get the final 6 Pokemon I’m missing with friends help and I’ve been doing this since October 2023 now. I won’t talk about the games themselves too much in these posts as I want to save them for my Fighter posts or later stage posts etc, however I will go over my thoughts and experience catching each Pokemon in their entries below. I will admit, there’s a few times I struggled to find stuff to say so I don’t know how entertaining this will all be, still it’s something I wanted to do so yeah, hope you enjoy. One final note, when it comes to a Pokemon’s “Role in Smash Bros” I am only mentioning things I have taken into account in what moves I’ve given them etc, so for example if a Pokeball Pokemon appeared as a trophy but it didn’t really add anything new I’ll just stick to its role being ‘Pokeball Pokemon’ whereas if the trophy description added a new move or something I’ll mention Trophy as part of it, same as for Spirit Battles.
Pokemon 1st Generation.
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Pokemon: Blastoise.
Region: Kanto.
Role in Smash Bros series: Pokeball Pokemon, Background Pokemon, Trophy (Mega Blastoise)
Moves: Hydro Pump.
My feelings on it: So to start off is the final evolution of Squirtle, one of the three starters of Kanto and a Pokemon who would become a fighter itself later in the Smash series. The Squirtle line as a whole is probably my second favourite of the three, although I haven’t used it as often in playthroughs as the other two. Despite my like for it I find it hard to really say much more on it. I suppose one thing that comes to mind with it was when I was young, me and my cousins each were lucky enough when the cardgame was big to get a shiny card of each starter and one of my cousins got Blastoise. Despite it not being my one I feel like I remember how Blastoise’s card looked the clearest from memory compared to the other two. Beyond that, I was glad it became playable in Pokken Tournament, but now I’m really grasping for things to say I guess.
How I caught it: So no exciting story here, simply put I used my Virtual Console version of Pokemon Blue, picked Squirtle and got to Viridian City at a point where I could put it in the PC and then used Pokemon Bank to transfer it before starting a new game. In Ultra Moon after transferring the Squirtle I grinded a bit to evolve it and made sure to teach it the moves I needed. Since this is the very first Pokemon entry I’ve written and other starters will use the same method, I won’t keep repeating about using Pokemon Bank and I’ll only detail things I did in Ultra Moon if they were notable like evolving them.
Specific aspects from Smash Bros: So, for Blastoise despite its long history in the Smash Bros series, there was only one move I needed to teach it which was Hydro Pump, the same move it used in its appearance as a Pokeball Pokemon in Super Smash Bros and Melee. Starters are always in regular Pokeballs so that was fairly simple to keep it with the standard red Pokeball to match Smash Bros. The only element currently missing with my Blastoise is giving it Blastoisinite due to it having a Mega Evolution as a trophy. I will eventually get the Mega stones for the Pokemon I need it for, but they require a fair bit of BP so I thought it best to leave that for later, I believe I will do a post later down the line going over Mega evolutions for the Pokemon that have had them in the Smash series rather than show them here.
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Pokemon: Clefairy.
Region: Kanto.
Role in Smash Bros series: Pokeball Pokemon.
Moves: Metronome, Sing.
My feelings on it: So I have a fair bit of history when it comes to Clefairy. The biggest thing relating to it is that I had an incident when I was younger regarding a Clefairy card where I was really happy to have gotten one. I was going on to my Mum about it and how rare it was etc and then sometime later at school I traded it with this older kid for a load of other cards. I can’t remember how I really felt about the trade but my Mum asked me later where it had gone and I told her I traded it for a load of them. I remember she thought it was silly for me to have given away something I’d been going on about being such a big deal and told me I should ask the kid to trade back for it. I went and asked him to do so which he refused so then I dumbly told him that my Mum had told me to do so which got him and his friends all to laugh and me calling me a Mummy’s boy etc. I don’t really remember clearly now what happened, if he ended up trading it back or it was the other thing that happened that caused it, which was eventually I ended up in a fight with him. The part of me that wants to sound sympathetic makes me think it was because since then him and his group would always point and laugh calling me Mummy’s boy whenever they saw me that made me end up getting into a fight with him whereas the less sympathetic more realist part of me says it was more likely I got into a fight after not much prodding from him over him not trading it back, it’s too long ago to really remember for sure now and it was a fairly miserable part of my life anyway where I ended up in a lot of fights and (to me) being bullied a lot back then. Either way I remember the ‘head of bullying’ at the school had us talk it over or something and maybe it was as a result of that he ended up having to trade the card back to me. It’s not a great memory either way but it’s definitely the biggest thing I associate Clefairy with now so I figured it was worth going over.
Anyway, regarding Clefairy itself, it’s a Pokemon I still like regardless of that memory. Somehow years later I lost that card, it might be hidden away somewhere in a cupboard of mine but it’s not with all the other old cards I had, I do have a Clefable one from a little after that so there’s that at least. In the games I’ve used Clefairy a few times, although I don’t think I’ve had it on my team since it became a Fairy type. One thing I always find interesting with it is it’s a Pokemon I know is rare but I feel like almost everytime I replay Kanto games I’ll end up running into one just during a regular journey through Mount Moon. I always think of it as Jigglypuff’s rival thanks to the anime episodes and of the two it’s definitely my favourite.
How I caught it: As I hinted at above, once again this time I found Clefairy simply during my trip through Mt Moon in Pokemon Yellow. I managed to catch it fairly easily in a Pokeball, I think thanks to Pikachu paralyzing it.
Specific aspects from Smash Bros: The most obvious things to do when it came to Clefairy’s appearance in Smash Bros, besides catching it in a regular Pokeball was it learning Metronome. Another less obvious addition however and something I also have taken into account with Pokemon I’ve got for my list is any additional factors from spirit battles involving them. Blastoise’s spirit battle didn’t really give it any additional factors which is why I didn’t mention that one, but for Clefairy it’s represented by Jigglypuff in Magicant. Due to this I felt it was also fitting for my Clefairy to know Sing as well in reference to the Spirit Battle.
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Pokemon: Hitmonlee.
Region: Kanto.
Role in Smash Bros series: Pokeball Pokemon.
Moves: Jump Kick.
My feelings on it: Honestly, when it comes to Hitmonlee, it’s one of those Pokemon I don’t think much about but the more I look at it now the more I think how odd it looks. Obviously it’s whole thing is kicking so the legs are the main thing that sticks out about it, but that very basic design the rest of it has helps make it feel a lot closer to a ‘Monster’ than a lot of the other more humanoid designs in the series. I will say I always liked how Tyrogue’s addition in Gen 2 linked it and Hitmonchan, to the best of my knowledge this was the only time in the series two Pokemon that weren’t connected became so due to a later addition, as well as adding a third form with Hitmontop. Since Hitmonlee is the only one featured in Smash Bros I figured this’d be the best place to really say anything about them, either way that’s all I can really think of for Hitmonlee, it’s an interesting Pokemon.
How I caught it: Since Hitmonlee’s in Smash Bros but Hitmonchan’s never been represented, when it came to the choice after defeating the Fighting Dojo in Saffron City of which of the two to choose it was a pretty obvious answer.
Specific aspects from Smash Bros: Ok, so this is the first time this has happened and I hope the last, when writing this post I actually realised that I’d been wrong in the notes I made. I had Hitmonlee’s move it uses in its appearance in Super Smash Bros (64) as Hi Jump Kick. I had no idea ‘Jump Kick’ was a whole separate move and explicitly the one used in Smash Bros. It seems it’s slightly more accurate than Hi Jump Kick but not as powerful. As soon as I realised this I just used one of my many spare heart scales to teach my Hitmonlee it. Beyond this that’s pretty much it with its Spirit Battle not really having any attribute I feel I need to represent, still I’m hoping this will be the last time I’ve made a mistake like this.
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Pokemon: Onix.
Region: Kanto.
Role in Smash Bros series: Pokeball Pokemon.
Moves: Rock Throw.
My feelings on it: I think my feeling regarding Onix is similar to a lot of peoples in that for such a huge Pokemon it tends to feel very underwhelming. Under Brock’s command and depending on your team it definitely helps feel like the first real roadblock you meet in the game due to its defence and its resistances (not to mention in Pokemon Yellow Brock’s Onix having one of the most irritating moves of Gen 1 being Bind) It soon however becomes a very common Pokemon to see being used by other trainers and with its 4x weakness to Water and Grass honestly becomes a somewhat welcome sight for easy exp. It’s a shame as I really like its design and if Pokemon were actually real it’s one I’d probably love to have, but as one of the 151 in the game it’s just not worth training to me.
How I caught it: I came across it during my journey through Rock Tunnel, it wasn’t particularly difficult as it’s a fairly common Pokemon in there.
Specific aspects from Smash Bros: I was worried for a moment right after the last entry I’d just run into the exact same problem as for some reason I have on my notes that it uses Rock Slide in its appearance in Super Smash Bros. The actual move as it turns out is Rock Throw, however in this case that’s not an issue as I had the Onix I caught able to use both so there was no addition I needed to make. Since it’s a Pokeball Pokemon once again I used a regular Pokeball to catch it.
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Pokemon: Starmie.
Region: Kanto.
Role in Smash Bros series: Pokeball Pokemon
Moves: Swift.
My feelings on it: I’ve always loved this Pokemon, it’s one that’s so simple but still manages to feel cool to me, especially with its Psychic typing that helped differentiate it from other water Pokemon. Honestly to this day it’s still one of my favourite water types despite the many additions there have been over the years and I feel like it’s a Pokemon that’s managed to stand the test of time. I think when it comes to Starmie specifically, since I’m sure it appeared in Smash due to the anime it was a fairly odd case being an evolved form of a Pokemon one of the main protagonists also had, with Misty having both it and Staryu. Since Staryu was the Pokemon Misty used more often however Starmie didn’t get many appearances which is a shame, especially as in the actual games Starmie often was a fairly tough Pokemon in her gym battle.
How I caught it: It’s hard for me to remember really especially which was which so I’ll just say the same for Starmie as I will for Staryu, I fished them both up with a Super Rod, I believe doing so around the Seafoam Islands where they were a higher level. I believe also with Starmie specifically I evolved it in Pokemon Yellow before transferring it through Bank as I couldn’t remember how easy it was to get a Water Stone in Ultra Moon and didn’t want to make more work for myself later if it wasn’t needed, although I later realised, I’d made an error with this.
Specific aspects from Smash Bros: I thought this would be a fairly simple case, I caught it in a Pokeball, evolved it from Staryu to Starmie in Pokemon Yellow and transferred it, my mistake however was forgetting it wouldn’t learn Swift as a Starmie, luckily this was fairly easily remedied with a heart scale which would pay for the move reminder to help Starmie learn Swift, it’s attack in Smash Bros. Since 64 was the only appearance Starmie specifically made in the series there wasn’t anything else really needed.
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Pokemon: Koffing.
Region: Kanto.
Role in Smash Bros series: Pokeball Pokemon, Enemy in Smash Run, Event in Smash Run.
Moves: Smog, Poison Gas and Smokescreen.
My feelings on it: I love Koffing, firstly I’ve come to appreciate poison types more as the years have gone on but secondly it’s just such an odd interesting to design to me, it’s just a ball but all those er, funnels or craters or whatever you call them makes it look a bit more interesting. Add to that how cheerful it always seems and it helps make it one of my favourites. Despite this however, if anything it’s one of those cases where I don’t appreciate it being in the anime as much, mostly as due to it being James most famous Pokemon (even if it wasn’t with him for most of the anime’s run) it’s one of those that’s always associated with villains which is a shame, something I’ll get to with a couple of other Pokemon down the line. Still I suppose it’s thanks to the anime it appeared in Smash and is on my list so for that part I am thankful. The final thing I always think of with Koffing is one of my favourite real-life collectables, reversible Pokemon plushes. I’m not someone who has ever collected plushes really, however I was a huge fan of these reversible Pokemon plushes they used to do where you could unzip the Pokemon and turn it inside out to become a Pokeball plush. I have collected a few over the years and Koffing being a ball already is probably one of my favourites just because it’s so easy to reverse (unlike a couple of others that can be a pain) and doesn’t look as misshapen as some of the others tend to. I realise this is an odd thing to bring up but really Koffing’s the one that makes me always remember them the most.
How I caught it: This is the first Pokemon I’ve gone over in this post so far that was an absolute pain to find, the main reason for this being (and another reason I’m not that happy about it’s role in the anime) due to it being a prominent member of Team Rocket’s team, it wasn’t available in Pokemon Yellow, which I’d forgotten when playing so I spent ages looking for it in the Pokemon Mansion just to realise after looking it up it wasn’t in Yellow at all (just like the rest of Team Rocket’s Pokemon) Luckily I had a virtual console copy of Pokemon Blue also that I was at the end of the game on, so I was able to track down Koffing in that, but with that it still was a pain to find with its 5% appearance rate, especially as I needed to catch two so I could get Weezing as well (who I’ll detail later in this post). I did eventually catch both and I was done with Pokemon Mansion… at least I thought so until I realised a terrible mistake I’d made, but that’s for a later entry.
Specific aspects from Smash Bros: So here we go again, I’ve realised after double checking when writing this post that I’ve once again made a mistake, although this time it’s not having the wrong move as the move I had was right, Koffing uses Smog in its appearance as a Pokeball Pokemon, which I’ve taught it as well as having it in a regular Pokeball. My mistake is that I believed Koffing just used Smog in its appearance in Smash Run as well, but now I’ve come realise it also has Poison Gas attack and on top of that, something I haven’t even considered before that might mean I’ll have to have another look at every other Pokemon (and maybe even other characters on my overall list) is Smash Tour. Apparently in Smash Tour there’s an event where Koffing will use Smokescreen. I have now taught Koffing both these moves, still this has made me realise I should probably just stay saved by the move reminder for when I get to later entries as I’m fairly sure this won’t be the last time I’ll need to do this.
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Pokemon:  Meowth.
Region: Kanto.
Role in Smash Bros series: Pokeball Pokemon, Trophy (Meowth’s Party)
Moves: Payday.
My feelings on it: Speaking of Pokemon whose anime appearances I have mixed feelings on... I love Meowth, I really like how it looks and I’ve had them on my team a couple of times. I’m not as fond of Persian but I’ve never held off evolving it either and I do like it still. I also really like Meowth in the anime with him having some great moments through the series. So why am I mixed on his appearance then? Well the reason is that Meowth in the anime is so prominent he sort of tends to be all anyone thinks of when it comes to the species. With that said, this has changed in later years, Sun and Moon seemed to be a renaissance of Meowth with not just the Alolan variant but the Kanto version also being an NPC who belongs to your Mum in the game. Also with Meowth getting a Galarian version who I actually really like despite how ridiculous it looks, Meowth has gotten a lot more attention in recent years even gaining a separate evolution in its Galarian form into Perrserker who’s more like a bigger tougher Meowth than Persian.
How I caught it: I don’t really remember much of note when it came to catching Meowth, it could be because I’ve done it plenty of times before, but I simply caught one from the Route north of Vermillion City as I usually do.
Specific aspects from Smash Bros: Fairly simple, I caught Meowth in a regular Pokeball and taught it Payday. There is one thing I suppose I should mention however, a Pokemon I don’t think I’ll be able to get even with a certain method I’ll detail in a later generation, but there was a trophy in Super Smash Bros Melee called Meowth’s Party based on a tech demo made to showoff what the Nintendo Gamecube could do. In this short Meowth sang a song for other Pokemon whilst playing a guitar. I believe this later was used as an ending theme for the anime in Japan and therefore this version of Meowth playing a guitar and singing is explicitly the Team Rocket Meowth. This version of Meowth has appeared in the games, specifically in Pokemon Yellow and Pokemon Lets Go Eevee and Pikachu where Jessie and James of Team Rocket battle with a team based on the anime. There was actually an event where Team Rocket’s Meowth could be downloaded in Japan and a couple of other countries in Pokemon Black and White 2, however it seems even with a method I’ll detail later it’s not possible to get that Meowth now. What makes this even more ironic for me is that this Meowth knew the move sing, I believe more likely in reference to Team Rocket’s Meowth being able to talk but it would have been ideal as a reference to Meowth’s Party. Still, I can only get so much and I’d rather at least have a Meowth at all at any rate.
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Pokemon: Weezing.
Region: Kanto.
Role in Smash Bros series: Pokeball Pokemon, Spirit.
Moves: Smog, Explosion.
My feelings on it: So similarly to Koffing I like Weezing, although of the two I definitely prefer the more happy looking Koffing. I will give Weezing credit though in how gross it is in how it’s sort of a tumour growing off of a Koffing in a sense. Not much more to add, similarly to Koffing and Meowth it has that same factor of often being seen as a villain Pokemon due to Team Rocket in the anime.
How I caught it: So as I explained in Koffing’s entry, I made a mistake and had to return to Pokemon Blue to find two Koffings which was difficult as they were a 5% encounter rate. I did eventually catch two (although if I remember right one of them when I finally found it used self-destruct which was pretty infuriating). All that was left then was to evolve Weezing which I did with a little grinding in Ultra Moon.
Specific aspects from Smash Bros: So, similarly to Koffing, Weezing uses Smog in its appearance as a Pokeball Pokemon, and of course coming from a Pokeball means I caught it in a regular Pokeball to match that. The only other factor of note is Weezing’s spirit in Ultimate which raises Fire and Explosion attacks, this is likely a reference to them being able to self-destruct as I said about regarding catching the Koffing, but with the name being Explosion I figured the move to teach would be Explosion.
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Pokemon: Beedrill.
Region: Kanto.
Role in Smash Bros series: Pokeball Pokemon.
Moves: Take Down.
My feelings on it: Honestly the only thing of interest I find with Beedrill is that it starts off as Weedle who always reminded me of Wiggler from the Mario series. With that said it was one of the two bug type Pokemon you’d encounter at the very start of the Kanto games (before you reached the first gym) and like a lot of bug types evolves at a fairly low level meaning it’s useful if you want a fully evolved Pokemon early in the game. With that said I never really bother with early bug types now when I replay the games, but when I did I still always tended to pick Butterfree over Beedrill. Once again, the anime seems to have influenced its appearance in Smash Bros as Beedrill would often appear as a horde to chase characters which is similar to how it works in Smash 64.
How I caught it: From what I remember, in Pokemon Yellow of the two Weedle was less common than Caterpie, so whilst I was searching for a Pikachu (who was rare in Viridian Forest) and I came across a Weedle I realised it was best to catch that now as I’d rather not have to look for it later. There was one other notable aspect for Beedrill that I’ll detail in the next section.
Specific aspects from Smash Bros: So Beedrill should have been fairly simple, evolves at a low level and only has one move it needed to learn as well as being an easy Bug type from the early game with a low catch rate meaning using a regular Pokeball was simple for it. Where it caused a bit of a problem is it was the first Pokemon on this list so far who could only learn it’s one move from Smash in Gen 1. Luckily this wasn’t due to levelling up but using a TM and it was a TM that was purchasable in the Celedon Department Store so was fairly easy to get. The move being Take Down wasn’t really what I expected given Beedrill’s known for its poison sting or pin missile attack, but that’s part of why I enjoy doing this because it’s a unique weirdness I wouldn’t really have bothered with otherwise.
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Pokemon: Articuno.
Region: Kanto.
Role in Smash Bros series: Pokeball Pokemon, Spirit, Trophy.
Moves: Icy Wind, Reflect, Ice Beam.
My feelings on it: Of the three Legendary Birds I suppose Articuno always felt a little more special to me, although I wouldn’t call it my favourite either, still it’s probably of the three the most ‘majestic’ and its location in the Seafoam Isles probably felt the most fitting of a ‘legendary creature’ of the three. Beyond that I don’t particularly have many more thoughts on it, it does have a nice design though.
How I caught it: Being the first legendary Pokemon entry I’ve written, it has a more specific way to catch it than just tracking it down through random encounters. Seafoam Isles was something I always remembered being really annoying but replaying it now makes me realise it’s far more simple than I used to think. Being able to save right before battling it also is somewhat of a series tradition when it comes to Legendaries which makes it honestly easier in some ways than regular Pokemon that are just difficult to find (as we’ll get to regarding a certain Safari Zone in a later entry). The only real irritating part of this battle is something unique to Gen 1 which is Pokeballs missing. This doesn’t happen too often in most of the game but is definitely apparent when battling the Legendary Birds or Mewtwo. With that said, honestly despite worrying it’s some additional mechanic in reality it’s just another way of the game demonstrating there’s a low catch rate and from what I’ve read (I’m definitely not a Pokemon expert) is just the equivalent in later games of the Pokeball not shaking at all, so it’s nothing to really be concerned about. Another thing I’ll add is of the two I far prefer this method of capturing Pokemon to the Roaming Legendaries, but I’ll get more into them when it comes to Gen 2. My final note to make is, for this whole challenge because the only Pokeballs that appear in Super Smash Bros are regular Pokeballs or Masterballs, I limited myself to only using them for this challenge. Due to this I believed I had to catch everything in Gen 1 in a regular Pokeball, which definitely is part of the reason why I saw so many ‘miss’ Articuno during the fight. What’s irritating is something I later learned after catching every Pokemon for my list in Gen 1 and 2, which really would have helped me a lot is actually in the Game Boy (or in my case Virtual Console) versions of the game don’t record what Pokeball you use as they’ll always appear in later games as a regular Pokeball. Of course I didn’t learn this through wasting my time with regular Pokeballs in these games, but in fact through spending a long time in Gen 2 trying to catch Pokemon with special Apricorn balls only to learn when transferring them from the Virtual Console version of Crystal they would only appear in Pokeballs, thus wasting all that time I spent getting them. Anyway, this is probably the longest ‘capture’ section I’ve done so far in an entry so I won’t repeat all this later I think.
Specific aspects from Smash Bros: I had to capture Articuno in a regular Pokeball due to it being a Pokeball Pokemon in Smash Bros which as I stated in the last section was irritating and actually not needed. Beyond this, in its appearance in Super Smash Bros Melee, Articuno uses the attack Icy Wind which was simple enough to teach it. In Articuno’s spirit battle, or more specifically the Spirit Battle it shares with Moltress and Zapdos, they are all represented by Lucas with a Franklin Badge. This reflects (haha) the Legendary Bird’s defensive moves they all learn at Level 10 which for Articuno is Reflect, therefore I taught Articuno that also. Now to add something since finishing this entry and coming back, I decided to go one extra step and look through the bios of every Pokemon trophy in the Smash Bros series, and I discovered in doing so a fair few moves mentioned in Pokemon’s bios they don’t use in the Smash series at all, so the loser that I am, I decided to teach as many Pokemon as I could these moves. Ice Beam is mentioned in Articuno’s trophy so I taught it, luckily this was a fairly simple TM move so didn’t take one of the many heart scales I’ve had to use for a lot of other Pokemon.
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Pokemon: Electrode.
Region: Kanto.
Role in Smash Bros series: Stage Hazard, Pokeball Pokemon, Trophy.
Moves: Explosion, Self-Destruct.
My feelings on it: Electrode is probably the biggest example of a functional but boring Pokemon to me. It along with its pre-evolved form Voltorb is known for being disguised as a Pokeball you find on the ground, then attacking you when you go to pick it up, using its very high speed to often use either Self-Destruct or use Explosion which takes it out and often can be very damaging to your Pokemon. I’ve always felt like it’s lacking beyond that but I also haven’t used it enough to really say much on it in regards to that, either way that’s my thoughts on it really, it definitely has an iconic role in the series but there’s not that much that appeals to me regarding it personally.
How I caught it: I believe I caught this Pokemon as a Voltorb in the Power Plant, possibly as one of the ones that was disguised as an item but it might have been a random encounter also. I believe I had one self-destruct on me for the first attempt which was annoying but caught it on the second.
Specific aspects from Smash Bros: Fairly simple here, it was caught in a regular Pokeball and I taught it explosion after it evolved.Of course, this turned out to be too simple as Electrode had to have a mention in its trophy entry of Self-Destruct, still it was simple enough to teach this also and I consider it now complete.
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Pokemon: Moltres.
Region: Kanto.
Role in Smash Bros series: Background Pokemon, Pokeball Pokemon, Spirit, Trophy.
Moves: Fly, Safeguard, Ember, Sky Attack.
My feelings on it: Of the three Moltres is probably my favourite Legendary Bird. Simply put despite not being as ‘majestic’ as Articuno it just has such a cool look with its flaming wings. It was probably the most prominent of the three in the original series of the anime too being the only one that actually appeared during the Indigo League and its flame being used as a torch for the Pokemon League similar to the Olympic Flame. There’s also of course James in the anime dressing up as Moltres but I don’t want to go on about the anime too much here. Probably the worst aspect of Moltres in Gen 1 was of the three Legendary Birds it probably had the least interesting appearance being in a section of Victory Road. As a result it was entirely possible to just run into Moltress when trying to get to the Pokemon League rather than it being in a location that was more optional and out of the way. This was fixed later in Pokemon Fire Red and Leaf Green where instead it appears more fittingly at the top of Mt. Ember on one of the Sevii Islands.
How I caught it: As stated in the previous section I tracked Moltres down in Victory Road. I believe I actually ran into it before the Pokemon League but as I wanted to focus on beating the story at that point rather than catching the Legendaries I held off and came back for it later. When I did return to it later it was difficult but nothing majorly so to the point I can’t really remember much about it now.
Specific aspects from Smash Bros: So once again I caught Moltres in a Pokeball. Despite the variety of fire attacks at its disposal and the main danger element it had when coming out of a Pokeball in Smash Bros being the fire surrounding it, the actual attack it uses is simply fly with it damaging anyone who comes into contact with it. It’s the spirit battle that it shares with Articuno and Zapdos which really provides any other moves for it with one of them being Lucas who represents it having a Franklin Badge that reflects attacks. This references each bird’s defensive move which in Moltres’s case is Safeguard. The Lucas who represents Moltres also uses PK Fire often which just represents Moltres’s fire type really, but the closest I thought it was to a Pokemon move really is Ember therefore I also taught it that. That would have been the end of it… but of course I decided to read Moltres’s trophy descriptions, and to my surprise it seems like repeatedly Moltres would always have Sky Attack mentioned. Sky Attack’s always been an attack I forget was in the series ever since Gen 1, still it was simple enough with a Heart Scale to teach it to Moltres.
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Pokemon: Staryu.
Region: Kanto.
Role in Smash Bros series: Pokeball Pokemon, Spirit Battle, Trophy.
Moves: Swift, Recover, Camouflage.
My feelings on it: Just like Starmie I like Staryu a lot. I went over most of my thoughts in Starmie’s entry so I guess the only other thing to add is it’s interesting how Starmie only appeared once in the Smash series and then Staryu replaced it, actually to the point Starmie gets no representation whatsoever beyond Smash 64. Staryu does lack the Psychic typing Starmie has so that definitely loses it a few points, but I must admit of the two Staryu’s easier to make look more expressive with its smaller form and fewer… limbs?
How I caught it: So as I stated in Starmie’s entry, I simply caught two Staryus (most likely at Seafoam Isles but I can’t remember for sure) and kept one as Staryu whilst evolving the second into Starmie.
Specific aspects from Smash Bros: Fairly simple, I caught it in a Pokeball and taught it Swift. The only other aspect related to it in Smash was that in its spirit battle it would gradually heal over time, this was definitely in reference to Staryu’s recover move which is something often associated with its evolutionary line specifically, so I simply taught it Recover also. This was not the end of things however because after reading Staryu’s trophy description I realised it mentioned its Camouflage move, so I also had to teach it that before it was complete.
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Pokemon: Venusaur.
Region: Kanto.
Role in Smash Bros series: Stage Hazard, Pokeball Pokemon, Trophy.
Moves: Earthquake, Razor Leaf, Poison Powder, Solar Beam.
My feelings on it: My favourite of the three Kanto starters, I often tend to gravitate towards the grass type starters and that all started with Bulbasaur. I do remember when I was younger however, of the three final evolutions of the starters I always tended to not like Venusaur too much, often feeling the other two were cooler and more interesting and how they fit more into things like Smash Bros. I eventually changed this opinion however when I realised just what a tank Venusaur was like (I’m talking just as a Pokemon not gameplay-wise) with it being almost like a swiss-army-knife of a Pokemon with vines, razor leaves, a massive laser and being able to cause earthquakes. Of course this is hardly something unique to it and the other two starters can learn various moves beyond just the obvious like breathing fire or shooting water, still it was something I just started to like Venusaur for specifically and helped improve my initial lower opinion of it.  Related to my earlier story for Blastoise, of the three of us I ended up getting the Venusaur card, although sadly I eventually lost it, or it’s been put away somewhere and I just haven’t found it to this day.
How I caught it: The same as I said in my entry for Blastoise, I simply transferred over a Bulbasaur before restarting the game to pick another starter.
Specific aspects from Smash Bros: Venusaur has had a fairly varied history in Smash Bros, and due to this it has had a few moves over the years. The first appearance was as a stage hazard in Saffron City in the original Smash Bros. For this appearance Venusaur would appear from a door on the rooftop and fire razor leaves, meaning this was the obvious attack to teach it. Venusaur’s appearance as a Pokeball Pokemon was different with it appearing and causing an earthquake, this would have been fairly simple but as it was, when I transferred and raised Venusaur in Ultra Moon I realised the TM to teach it Earthquake was in an area only accessible in the post-game. Due to this I held off for a long time until I was ready to play through the Rainbow Rocket storyline before finally being able to teach it Earthquake. Finally in the spirit battle with Venusaur one of the conditions is a poisoned floor. This is mostly a reference to Venusaur’s poison typing, however I decided it was simple enough to represent this with Poison Powder since it was something that would instantly poison an opponent and a fairly standard move the Bulbasaur line can learn. Being a starter Venusaur was already in a regular Pokeball. The only other thing which I forgot at first was that Mega Venusaur appears as a trophy in Smash, so due to this I need to get my Venusaur a Venusaurite Mega Stone similarly to Blastoise, however as I cannot take a screenshot of Mega Venusaur I thought similarly to Mega Blastoise there was no need to rush into getting that. Of course, after saying that there was one other thing I forgot which was if Venusaur’s Trophy Description mentioned any other moves and it did, Solar Beam. Luckily Venusaur already knew that so I didn’t need to teach it anything more.
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Pokemon: Zapdos.
Region: Kanto.
Role in Smash Bros series: Pokeball Pokemon, Background Pokemon, Spirit Battle, Trophy.
Moves: Thundershock, Light Screen, Thunder, Drill Peck.
My feelings on it: Zapdos is probably my second favourite of the legendary birds. Part of that is partially because I tend to like electric types and therefore prefer it to the other birds typings, however it’s also helped by its design which is odd but also stands out. Probably the most prominent thing I always think about with Zapdos, besides its spiky feathers is its beak. The beak always makes me think of Drill Peck, probably more than the actual electric attacks it can use, it just looks like something you really wouldn’t want to have swooping at you. It’s appearance in the Power Plant is definitely better than Moltres location, but I feel it’s not as ‘mysterious’ as Articuno’s location, if anything it makes me think more of looking in some old shed and having some old bird that’s been nesting there attack you than tracking down a legendary creature.
How I caught it: The same as the other two birds I caught it with a regular Pokeball which was annoying. I vaguely remember it being a bit more dangerous than the other two to face and with its electric typing it wouldn’t take as much damage from my Pikachu as those two would.
Specific aspects from Smash Bros: I caught it in a Pokeball and it knew Thundershock when caught which was fairly simple. Like with the other two Legendary Birds it shares a spirit battle with, it too has a defensive move represented with the Franklin Badge, in Zapdos’s case Light Screen which I therefore also taught it. I originally had Fly for its moveset due to its appearance in the background of Lumiose City flying around, however, when reading its Trophy descriptions I came to realise there were two attacks mentioned I had not taught Zapdos, the first was Thunder and the second was Drill Peck. Luckily Zapdos knew Drill Peck already and Thunder was a simple enough TM to use so it did not need too much more work.
Credits.
For information on this game I used to research relating to attributes such as movesets etc for Pokemon I must give credit to Bulbapedia, Serebii and SmashWiki.
The screenshots in this post are taken by me using the Photo Club feature in Pokemon Ultra Moon, screenshots using Nintendo Switch in Super Smash Bros Ultimate and Trophy Images taken from SmashWiki.
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chevvy-yates · 2 years
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Get to Know Me
Thank you for tagging me on this one @miss--river ! :)
Relationship status: single
Favourite colour(s): - copper - purple - military green
Favourite food/drinks: - potatos - pasta con basilico - lemon soda - gin tonic
Song stuck in you head: Billy Joel – We didn't start the Fire
Time: 7:56 am
Last thing you googled:  way too many 1980s songs, dicso, punk, electro pop, dark wave, new German wave
Dream trip: already done in 2019 - me all alone in San Francisco and Monterey/Carmel-by-the-Sea. Wish I could be there again. atm there are new goals, well maybe next year Tokyo again: also just me, so I can make it a photography at night trip bc I've seen pretty much everything important of Tokyo already, but I love it to be there. Would love to do the same with San Francisco but I'm scared alone at night in America, haha. Japan however is no problem.
Last book you hated reading: I have to force myself to read books, so …
Last book you enjoyed reading/Last book you read: might have been The Hobbit some years back.
Favourite craft to do in your free time: atm. taking ingame photos of Cyberpunk and my V. But I love to edit photos all the time and have a ton of it to edit and post.
Bonus! favourite to cook/bake: self made potatos in a bed of lettuce and with lots of mayo on it!
Opinion on the circus: I liked it as a kid but today I wouldn't set a foot into a circus anymore – same for Sea World and such, I'm also not going to zoos anymore. The last aquarium I want to visit is the one in Monterey, just so I can compare it to others I've been to but then that's it with aquariums as well. All those sea animals are wild and belong in the ocean.
Do you have a sense of direction?: I think I do. once I studied a map good enough I know where I gotta go. It worked pretty good during my time in San Francisco, but tbh American sreets are so typically squared you can't do anything wrong. Tokyo on the other hand - I got lost every time especially at Shinjuku Station. It's a labyrint and everything looks the same.
tagging: Well, I don't know anyone here but I guess you all have done this already because I see you always reblogging each others content. So, don't want to bug you guys again with that tag game. Maybe I'll see some of your answers anyways :)
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butchdeloria · 3 years
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“Judge not, and you will not be judged. Condemned not, and you will not be condemned. Forgive… and you will be forgiven.” ✞
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lizzart-zardonicz · 3 years
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Hey Lisa your stuff is insane! I was wondering how you render faces so good? I really want to get my portrait skills up and I absolutely think you excel at that! Any tips?
Hi there! Thank you so much for this ask, I wanted to share some advice on this topic earlier, but oh well, uni life. So, here we go! First of all, have references ready, clean photos with natural lighting work best! If you are drawing a fan-art portrait of a certain character, it's also helpful to have a variety of angles of their face at the ready. • For DMC art, I sometimes use the ingame photo mode in DMC 5 to capture a certain angle. But this is how I mostly work:
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• I use a software called PureRef to organize my references, this one didn't need as many refs because I had a fairly good idea already in my mind for the angle and layout. • There is this nifty video of a male head (upper right picture) where you can pause and rotate the angle of the lighting to help you with shadows and shapes. I pause the video with my desired rotation and then take a screenshot and add it to my refs.
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• I prefer to not draw too detailed lineart before rendering. It confuses me more to stay in certain shapes and I simply don't have the attention span to do it. (lol) • The most important thing is to flip your canvas now and then, but don't overuse it! Your brain won't be able to differentiate between these two angles after a while and you won't be able to spot mistakes anymore, at least that happens for me. • If you struggle with shapes, just eyeball them first, put them where they feel right and then adjust, visually compare to reference, adjust, adjust and adjust. • Between adjusting, take breaks! You will automatically process your drawing in your brain, even when you’re not drawing. You are learning constantly, just by looking at other people! When I’m at my limit with correcting facial shapes, I take a whole day off of working on this particular artwork and focus it on a new sketch or even take a break from drawing at all for a day.
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• As you can see, Dante went through many stages. And the more you draw, the less adjusting you'll have to do! It'll be a process, but it's fun to see it happen. You'll be able to locate the certain features more quickly, the more your eyes and brain train to draw faces. Hope this helps! ♥
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thedevilliers · 2 years
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Hello! Do you have any tips on setting up backdrops for portrait shots of Sims?
hi!! of course!! i'm guessing ingame portrait screenshots!! i used to like plain old solid-ish backgrounds for portraits but recently i've grown to love actual decorated backdrops !!! for example, on my latest cp emilia render, i actually set up the scene ingame first to fully conceptualize it. rest under the cut cos i included more explanations and pics !!!
before I did that tho, i looked for inspiration on pinterest. i looked up “princess portrait painting” and did a board for inspo and saved photos I liked. more than that, you start noticing patterns in these paintings; there’s usually some (1) curtain draped in the back, (2) some mural behind said curtain and (3) columns. depending on your type of portrait you want to do, the things that are mostly included in said concept will be different.
for my royal portraits, here’s them and their main inspiration side by side. you can add or remove things depending on what you like and what type of result you’re looking for!!
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for ingame, now that you have an idea of what will be featured in the portrait, you can go ahead and start decorating the room. columns, a painting, a curtain, a chair, a rug, etc.
while you do all this though, remember to try and find the angle you want to take the screenshot at so you can move things around so those objects aren’t obstructing the main subject or taking attention away from them.
for lightning, i do use the ‘super subtle saucer light’ aka the tiny light and i place four around the subject like this [pls ignore the solid bg its an old screenshot ksdjfsjdfs]:
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depending on your sim, make sure they aren’t overexposed which happens if you place too many lights / the lights are too strong. here’s an example of what overexposure means in general photography:
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also!! if you do go for murals in the background instead of a solid background, make sure the background compliments what your sim is wearing. like i said before, you want you sim to stand out, not their surroundings !!!
thats all !!! : D
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panpanstyle · 2 years
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Apparently It's my birthday today. So have this fake birthday summon drawing I made.
Idk if I'll ever draw the groovy ver
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Panpan's Birthday Voice Lines
Yes, not me inserting my persona in another franchise again.
No no no I'm not gonna mention my long forgotten genshin persona, even tho i already created a full story about her
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When Summon
Upupupu
Now won't you come to my birthday party?
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Hee hoo~ a party to celebrate the day where my lifespan decreased by a year. I don't know if i should really celebrate today or be happy
Groovy
Hoo now i wish this party won't end, but might as well enjoy it till the ends
Set Home
I really don't know what to feel about this suit
Home idle 1
Grim seems to really enjoy my birthday party, well maybe it because of how many food there are
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Vil-senpai gave me the latest model hair dryer as a birthday gift. Could it be... he remembers about me wanting a new hair dryer? Well it's useful for me, since it's hard to dry my hair
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Hihihihi
I still can't believe both living beings and ghosts take their time to enjoy this day. Thank God there isn't a math exam today
Home login
Brutality hoo, a party sure is fun but I'm tired as a grandma. That's why can you hand me some sweets please? I don't want my brain to hurt
Home idle groovy
♫I want this chocolate~ i want that art supply~ i want and want and want so many thingssss~~♪
Most importantly i want to be able to sleep before 12 am
*panpan is singing doraemon op song, but with her own lyrics*
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Idia bought some ingame currency for me to gacha in my favorite mobile game. Aww he knows what i want so well, and i can't wait to get my favorite character. I just hope my gacha luck isn't that bad...
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Didn't Malleus and Leona stayed in the same room back at the birtday party? I'm surprised they haven't started a round two of both of them bickering at each other, ah wait it seems like Vil going to start a debate with them...
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If my friends from back at home were here, they would certainly caused chaos and scream "Wowww Mom is old" Yes yes i know I'm getting older right now, but still. And the fact some of them are older than me
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Ace and Deuce said that the we as in them, me, and Grim should hold a small party together. But the other guy in the same year as me insisted to join the party too. Welp as long as we can eat more delicious food, i don't mind
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Hey listen! Hey listen! Don't ya think this pixelated alien pin look cute on me! Back in my world i always used this emoji when texting online
Home tap groovy
Anjer, don't take a picture of me eating right now, weh lagi belepotan mukanya!! Ah i accidentally said something in my main language. Uhhh anyway here let's just take a photo together, Hee ho! *snaps*
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Panpan: "Grim, calm down a bit"
Grim: "Don't order me around Panpan!"
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Panpan birthday suit up personal story
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starblazer124 · 2 years
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different anon here! just bouncing some stuff and some ingame info from what you wrote for the karl/ethan/reader anon
the only time in Village where Ethan is not (too) traumatised nor (too) stressed* and sounds relaxed is at the very beginning of the game, when you can walk around holding Rose inspecting everything in the house: when checking the stroller he says that once the weather gets better he wants to take Rose for a walk; will make silly voices with Rose's toy monkey; comments that he's going to deep clean the house before Rose starts walking; with the wine bottles, says maybe when she grows up they can share a drink ( ;_; ); he loves taking pictures, and there are lots in the house! of mia and Rose but mostly Rose; likes playing piano and drawing as you see in his diary that he writes throughout the game.
* (seems to walk on eggshells around his wife about RE7 which was traumatising for both but while she wants to forget and ignore everything that happened and start anew (understandably, trauma hits peeps differently, but she literally had a hand in everything that went wrong), he can't move on unless they talk it out, he still feels trapped in Louisiana - he mentions this in his diary and also mentions they 'had another fight' - also that 'she wouldn't have exploded like that in the hospital if she didn't care' - everytime he wants to talk about it she will get angry - man's honest, can't lie or act to save his life and likes to talk things out so they don't fester and cause problems later down the road...)
-- so after it all settles down after klling miranda, finding somewhere to live comfortably and feelings have been made clear, Ethan would draw both his loves holding Rose while they all take a nap; take pictures of reader and Rose when she takes her first steps; Karl and reader try to distract him from cleaning the house and enlist Rose's big doe eyes that Ethan can't say no to (then he takes sweet revenge doing it right back to them while reader is helping Karl with one of his projects, no one can say no to Rose); reader WOULD get Ethan to appear in the family photos him holding Rosie and Karl holding them both and this got so long omg i'm sorry i just love the potential for karl and ethan and reader having a nice life ;__; (angst can be thrown in if anyone wants that ofc
Thank you so much! These notes on Ethan are super helpful!
And you're making me feel things, Anon! YOU'RE GIVING ME IDEAS!! I want to write so many of these fluffy scenarios with our boys. It's making me feel so warm and fuzzy~ (I'm a super soft boy. You won't see much angst here, at least without a happy result!)
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mistreaders-requiem · 3 years
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GW2 ask 12, 15, 16, 17 and 24! (should all be unanswered by you if I'm not blind)
[ ask game ] Thank you! Lowkey don't mind repeats bc my answers to these are staggered and more often than not gets buried, but it's much appreciated!
12. How many achievement points do you have?
I have around 11.1k AP, though I'm not able to check the exact number ingame at the moment. A big chunk of it is thanks to Dailies piling up.
15. Have you ever been really angry at the game? why?
It happens... semi-frequently, while having to deal with the worser kind of lag. But as for a specific circumstance, my first few times fighting the Mordy boss during Hearts & Minds made me rage so bad because I couldn't even get past either Blighted!Eir or Blighted!Canach. In time though, and with help, I got through eventually.
16. Do you enjoy jumping puzzles?
Mixed feelings. I enjoy jps that are simple or complex but easy to get a feel for the direction it's going. I also really love ones with gimmicks (the one that gives you really weird debuffs when you hit rifts).
Then there's the ones that will not shy away from murdering you over and over and... I have 0 patience for them.
17. Whats your best guild wars experience?
I find it hard to consider anything I've experienced so far as best, but that's not me saying I don't have any great ones.
I still remember the awe and relief I felt finishing the Personal Story on Nohsi, and frantically taking photos of the cutscene where we see our player with DE. I was very sleep deprived at that moment after pulling an all-nighter to finish it. (It kinda hit me different as well because I took a long break from story when I first experienced Claw Island and the loss of Forgal.)
My whole experience from working on Skyscale quests are very memorable to me too! It was refreshing going back to core maps on Viilhelm and getting into the roleplay of a very worried man looking for his runaway, sickly-looking skyscale. (I say sickly because I had the Dark Monarch skin long before I even had S4, and wanted to pretend that my baby skyscale was already that frail-looking, making Viil worry out of his mind).
24. Is there a race you hate with a passion?
In a broad sense, I appreciate what the all races bring to game, making the world of Tyria feel incredibly rich.
...I just really hate the Mursaat's... ways. Their whole theme. Thinking about them make my skin crawl. I'm glad they're gone for good (even though getting at that point wasn't the best use of my patience either.)
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riotouseaterofflesh · 3 years
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Unpopular Life Is Strange S1 hot take
Episode 5's treatment of David was never intended to redeem or justify him - only show a side that could in principle lead to his redemption, and even then only if even that is given a charitable reading which the writers leave open not to do.
What he says about Chloe after rescuing Max is 100% the sort of thing that a person can say to themselves and even sincerely believe, but be totally incapable of applying in practice once they're no longer dealing with their own mental model of what the person should be like and actually has to deal with the person themself. Joyce for her part has whatever she loves about David driving her to find anything she can to hold on to whatever she loved about him or at least her idea of him.
Max meanwhile really has established a notional connection to David in her head - or at least her own mental model of what she thinks he is like - even if not really ever communicated to anyone else, having come to the realization/developed her own theory that most of David's actions are based on a constant anxiety about everything that can't be turned off, and Max sees herself in the way he hides behind his cameras accordingly.
Throughout the entire game we see over and over again people’s wildly inaccurate mental models of others - Victoria and Taylor thinking Max is pretending to be a quirky nerdy hipster, David thinking Rachel is a drug mule, everyone else’s thoughts about Rachel, Joyce’s lamenting what she thinks Chloe has become, Chloe thinking Nathan would never be the sort to escalate to guns, the three or four totally unsupported claims about the origins of the storm, etc. etc. etc.. Even Max’s selfies are contrasted with every other photo of her we know about ingame - all of which are taken or kept by men, all of whom (except William, and even that was a later change) appear in the stealth portions of her nightmare. I think any “redeeming” part of David we see in Season 1 is less “this guy was a Good Guy, actually” and more of the constant muddying of expectations that happens throughout the game.
[This post brought to you by seeing one too many black-and-white “I hate the way Dontnod keeps trying to force us to like David” gripes elsewhere.]
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hugispuso-archive · 3 years
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👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 (yes i submitted ten-- if you don't want to do ten, you can lessen the number! i got a bit carried away ahaha-)
HOLY SHIT JADYN THANK YOU SO MUCH I'M-
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ok firstly, t h i s. w/o context, it looks awkward SO I'LL EXPLAIN IT FOR Y'ALL LOL. this is actually the time when i was able to buy him 🥺🥺💕 !! i rmbr playing SO MANY matches just to get enough clues to buy and HE FINALLY CAME !! this happened at the very first day of August, and is probably one of the best days for me. his doll ingame is so well done, i'm gonna give that to net.ease.
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YOOOOOOOOO that frikin sword looks really cool. this is where i got the headcanon of him knowing how to swordfight and it still fits. he's a pirate sailor who lives in the 19th century, what did you expect. and that posture? that glare? y'all better be careful bc you never know what he might do with that SNDJDNDJBFF. the puffy sleeves bro!! the piratecore vibes in this one ugghthjfjjg 😩😩👌 BLESS
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*breathes* okay. um. WOW. i don't know what to say. modern jose? dndjdjdbdjdnn. yes we're completely ignoring kevin bc i hate the dude (/hj). BUT SHIIIIIIT AAAAA PUTANGINA. THE SUIT!!!! AND GLASSES!!!! JOSE JUST- TAKE ME SJSKSBDIJBFKGNG I'M ALL YOURS 🤲🤲🤲🤲
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pspspsps @sylvieselfships & @gentle-horrors come get y'alls boys. 👀👀👀 anyway JOSE LOOKS GOOD IN BLACK AS WELL. HOW THO??? IDFK BUT HE JUST SLAYS THE LOOK. OMFG WAIT I JUST REALIZED HE DOESN'T HAVE HIS PROSTHETIC ARM HAJABSJDBJD OMG HOW DIDN'T I NOTICE THAT. but i'm so happy to see him smiling here. it fits him!! he should smile more genuinely like that. that chest hair- *dies*
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THIS SKIN AWOOOOOGAAAAAAA- i slept on this skin when it was first released bc i seriously didn't like it KSNDJFNFNFN. but the more i looked at it and discovered more fanarts of it, i guess i just accepted that he looks good in any skin he has LOL. why is this bastard licking his finger ffs. STOP THAT YOU'RE MAKING ME FLUSTERED BITCH !!!! 😡😡😡
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OKAY I RAN OUT OF APPROPRIATE PHOTOS OF JOSE TO GUSH OVER SO IMMA JUST SLIP JESSE IN HERE. this is?? literally a masterpiece?? I'M GOING AWOOGA LOOKING AT THIS IT'S JUST SO AMAZING. the immaculate vibes !! his posture and his smirk !! THAT'S MY COWBABY Y'ALL AND I LOVE HIM WITH ALL MY HEART.
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hey this is an aesthetic photo! i love it sm 😭💕 he's just there, chilling with a genuine smile on his face while the sun is shining from behind. THIS ENTIRE PIECE IS SO SOFT I LOVE IT A LOT.
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BLUSHING JESSE 🥺🥺💕 !!!! HE IS SO CUTE WAAAAAA I WANNA KISS HIM TO FLUSTER HIM EVEN FURTHER HEHEHEH. i find it adorable how he's using his hat to cover his face like NSJDIFNFN you ain't hiding from me cowboy lemme give you a kiss. 😚😚😚
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WHY ARE MY BOYS SO HANDSOME UGHHHHH THIS IS UNFAIR. the tiny heart beside him is what got him because wow that made him even cuter. AND GODDAMN THAT FRIKIN SMIRK. I LOVE HIM SM OMG JSNDIDNFJC.
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blackwatch jesse........ you can have me pls just take me YOU LOOK SO GOOD IN BLACK TOO IHHDHHFJFJJF SERIOUSLY. idk the reason [yet] why and how he got the idea of changing his belt to BAMF but issok i still love him.
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earlfeytea · 4 years
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A “LFRP but really a basic profile holder for Briar Duval” Post
**Still subject to change, just wanted to get basic info out there**
The Basics –
Age: 31
Birthday: 13th Sun of the 5th Umbral Moon
Race: Miqo’te, Keeper/Seeker mixed heritage
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Homosexual
Marital Status: Single
Physical Appearance –
Hair: Black and Grey
Eyes: Blue
Height: 5’2”
Build: Toned
Distinguishing Marks: Instead of the usual male face markings, Briar has stripes at several points starting at the edges of his face similar to female miqo’te markings. Has a large scar on his left hip. There is also a beauty mark just under his left eye.
Common Accessories: Wears a gold chain necklace with two gold banded rings at all times.
Personal –
Profession: Part time dance instructor as well as small jobs he can handle at shops to get by, former adventurer.
Hobbies: He mostly likes to people watch when he isn’t working. Enjoys seeing shows and enjoys cross stitching in the evenings. 
Languages: Common Eorzean
Residence: Lavender Beds
Birthplace: The North Shroud
Religion: None
Patron Deity: Menphina
Fears: Unknown at the moment
Relationships –
Spouse: None at the moment. Was married to his late husband, Allric Sullivan
Children: None
Parents: Jere'li Duval (Father) & E’raxu Duval. Both are alive and dwell in the north shroud by themselves.
Siblings: None
Pets: None
Traits –
* Bold your character’s answer.
Extroverted / In Between / Introverted
Disorganized / In Between / Organized
Close Minded / In Between / Open Minded
Calm / In Between / Anxious
Disagreeable / In Between / Agreeable
Cautious / In Between / Reckless
Patient / In Between /  Impatient
Outspoken / In Between / Reserved
Leader / In Between / Follower
Empathetic / In Between / Apathetic
Optimistic / In Between / Pessimistic
Traditional / In Between / Modern
Hard-working / In Between / Lazy
Cultured / In Between / Uncultured
Loyal / In Between / Disloyal 
Faithful / In Between / Unfaithful
Additional information –
Smoking Habit: Sometimes
Drugs: Only medicinal
Alcohol: Quite frequent
RP Hooks –
Hook 1 : Due to certains events and injuries to his hip, Briar does easy going dance lessons for the elderly or physically impaired as well as starting classes in which he instructs. He uses these lightweight lessons as a means to keep himself in shape while offering easy exercise and enjoyment to those who need it. It also kinda helps him remember to do it. So perhaps you need a dance class or know someone who has had them and have bumped into him during a meet up.
Hook 2 : If lessons aren’t making the money that week or he’s unable to do so,you might find him doing smaller jobs that don’t require a lot of physical work. This could just be as simple as him sitting behind the counter at a shop or bakery. Even just taking orders at the bar. Don’t count on him to be there always however. 
Hook 3 : As cliche as it is, at a tavern, people watching. Even if he isn’t with anyone in particular, he finds just sitting in a corner and watching others while having a drink soothes him during his more lonely days. 
Hook 4 : He used to be part of a small adventuring group, Crown of Thorns. Since the death of his husband 3 years ago along with the lasting effects from the injury he received during that event, the group has since broken apart. But perhaps you might have known the group or possibly worked with them at one time or another. 
Hook 5 : Sometimes duty calls, whether you like it or not. If someone is in need or a job sounds too good, Briar’s health isn’t so bad yet that he can’t assist. Sometimes he still yearns for the glory of the old days and can certainly work his dancer magic in the battlefield... Provided there is rest in between mind you.
Hook 6 : Briar finds true happiness in foggy weather. While others find the density to be almost suffocating, Briar finds peace. His finest work was done hiding in the mist, his hearing ability giving him an edge over most. Perhaps you’ve come across him before by accident, meditating amongst the foliage of the shroud surrounded by a dense sea of grey cloud.
Hook 7 : As with many severe injuries, he’s gonna need a doctor to help him take care. While the nerves in his leg have done a good job healing, early arthritis and ever mending nerves mean constant visits to the chirurgeon. Never anything too serious, just check ups and such. Perhaps you’ve met him during a trip or perhaps a chirurgeon/nurse yourself.
What am I looking for  –
Most anything I suppose? I am open to shipping but there needs to be something there. I am open to ERP and dark themes but won’t RP such things with anyone under 21. I am just not comfortable rping such things with one under that age, especially since there could be times where I want to draw such things. 
I will be happy to do light hearted events with people younger but nothing more than that.
Other Information  –
I am a multi-paragraph rper though I do like shorter ones too and tend to match who I am RPing with. 
Discord is my preferred method of roleplaying. Being from the UK, it really helps me to get things going with people, especially since I work full time and most of the community I know is overseas. It also allows me time to think on things and go back if needed so it can be picked up easily should something happen. (It’s also a good excuse to slack off at work where I can’t get ingame, ssssh, don’t tell one!) I also like to headcanon a lot and feel it’s easier to go back and forth on this platform. I am happy to do mini ingame things however, even if it’s just hanging around for photos and such. Just please excuse me if I end up going a bit quiet as my brain shuts itself off until I am fully comfortable and confident.
Messaging here is fine also but hard to keep track of. Twitter, sure? If you do want my discord, ask me first. 
If you do see me ingame, please note this character is still under Sacha Desyre with the switcheroo happening later after payday.
Thanks guys for reading!
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flamboyant-king · 5 years
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Hello, have the scripts for comics I wanted to make when I first started using Lewn, got L!Azura, Taku got brave bow+, and Joji ‘retired.’ But, you know, my hands can only draw so much.
So this is context for comics and relations at the moment, in case yall are lost since I didn’t DRAW THESE.
--Jeorge meets Lewyn--
(Game context: During a grand conquest, my units were dying left and right because of poor placement. Lewyn was trapped behind a wall so he would only defeat the units that spawned right in front of it. Jeorge got closest to the fortress, but he couldn’t kill the Corrin standing there in one hit. So I used his turn to break down the wall and Lewyn hath been released.)
Jeorge: [running towards the fort] Where the Hel is everyone.
[aims at Corrin]
Jeorge: Damn. [Stops in front of a wall] Her defense is too high.
[melody playing from behind the wall]
Jeorge: ...Lewyn?
Lewyn: How are you, Jeorge?
Jeorge: Have you been hiding there this whole time?
Lewyn: I can’t believe you think that lowly of me.
Lewyn: The area you’re standing in is empty because of me.
Jeorge: [patting the wall] Well, I need more than one area cleared by you.
[one brick pushed out and the wall crumbles]
Lewyn: Now, why did you go and do that...
Jeorge: [pointing behind to Corrin] Get rid of her, please. 
Lewyn: Only because you asked so nicely~
[meanwhile]
--New Bow--
(Game context: I gave Taku brave bow because... Idk seemed like a good idea. he’s like not fast at all but I was giving him a lot of bows)
Gordin: KOUHAI! TAKUMI KOUHAI!
Takumi: I told you not to call me that.
Gordin: Then what do I call you?
Takumi: MY NAME.
Gordin: Okay! I have gift for you, from senpai to Takumi!
Takumi: Brave bow?
Gordin: You said that you’re fighting for two. That means twice as many arrows!
Takumi: Oh...thanks. I’ve never really used this before.
Gordin: [GASP] THAT MEANS I HAVE TO TEACH YOU!
Takumi: No, you do--
Gordin: I AM YOUR SENSEI, YOU ARE MY STUDENT! 
Takumi: He’s not listening...
--New Training--
Gordin: [pacing about] This is all so sudden. From senpai to sensei in a blink of an eye. 
[turns around]
Gordin: Since you know all the things Mr. Jeorge has taught me, that means I have to teach you my own methods!
Takumi: Yippee?
Gordin: [rubbing chin] The leaf thing is outdated. That means I must make a new curriculum.
Gordin: Shoot through here. [okay hand]
Takumi: What?
Gordin: It’s just like a target except with the risk of injury.
Takumi: I’m not doing that.
Gordin: Do you have confidence in your aim!
Takumi: I do but the risks are to--
Gordin: DO IT!
[shoots arrow right into gordin’s palm]
Gordin: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Takumi: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
[Gordin and Takumi screaming in the background]
Niles: [behind a tree] Ah, so Jeorge was actually a babysitter...
--The Real Doubler--
Lucius: What are you two doing? You’re lucky Leon came and got me!
Leon: If I didn’t get you, Niles would have just let them stand there screaming for hours.
Niles: And I would be laughing for all those hours.
Gordin: [sobbing] I’m sorry Takumi, I’m a terrible teacher. How can I teach without my good hand!?
Takumi: Eh...you were just excited to help me. I really appreciate you giving me your bow. Maybe we can train together when you’re all better.
Takumi: As equals, not student and...sensei.
Gordin: That sounds nice. But if I can’t teach you won’t be able to shoot double the arrows.
Kravice: [offscreen] That’s where you’re wrong!
Kravice: [on Legendary Azura’s ride] Sup guys, guess who finally learned the importance of dancers!
[a day, maybe, later]
--Aether Keep Rearrangement--
(Game context: Aether Keep editing is fun, just nothing but traps.)
Lewyn: Hello, Jeorge, enjoying your “break?”
Jeorge: Barely. I still hold the job as representative, so I still have to deliver messages to other realms, assist in gauntlets, and defend this place from invaders.
Lewyn: At least it’s cozy up here. [counting on his fingers] Got an inn, a park, places to shop, hot springs, and a library. What’s really missing is somewhere to eat.
Jeorge: It’s far from relaxing. The set up of this place changes constantly. Not to mention the traps.
Lewyn: What tra-- [Lewyn promptly falling through a trap door]
Jeorge: Lewyn!
--
Lewyn: [freaking out] WHY IS THAT THERE!? WHY IS THAT JUST THERE!?
Jeorge: Blame Kravice. He says it’s ‘fun.’
Kravice: [offscreen] I actually said ‘funny.’ 
Kravice: [on Azura’s ride] I get a lot of great snap shots with all my set ups.
Kravice: [turning around the tacticians tablet revealing a photo of Lewyn on top of Jeorge] Who do you think would benefit more from this? Anna or Nina?
Lewyn & Jeorge: >:^\
[A week or so later]
--Quadrupler--
[four arrows in the target]
Gordin: And in one swift motion you’ve shot 4 arrows into your foe’s back!
Takumi: I honestly thought my hands would be too small to hold all the arrows.
Gordin: If I can do it, so can you! [jazz hands]
Kravice: [offscreen] Taku!
Kravice: [Azura safely lands her horsey] I need you to come with me!
Takumi: You...need me for something?
Kravice: I’m gonna nab me another Michalis, so I need some fliers
Takumi: But we learned last time that arrows have no effect on him.
Kravice: [sparkle] That’s why we have Azura.
--XD--
[in the skies]
Ryoma: Takumi, you’ll have to take care of Michalis.
Takumi: But why? You’re more suited for this.
Ryoma: Look around you, Takumi, this is the only viable option.
[cuts to Michalis covered in arrows with hp bar at exactly half] 
Takumi: Even with Azura’s boost and all these arrows, I barely got him to half HP
Azura: <:^) Cheer up, okay. [gives taku another turn]
Takumi: [zoom in on stats] :0
Takumi: [turns to azura] XD
Azura: ....Okay, maybe tone it down a bit. [that finger pinch thing]
(game context: I have a video of a damaged taku getting danced by azura and it’s just exactly this)
--New Rep--
[Krav barging through the front doors, triumphant]
Kravice: Oh baby! I can’t believe my strategy actually worked! Good job out there, Taku!
Takumi: I...I gotta go! [runs away, redfaced]
Kravice: Compliments really do drive him crazy...
Alfonse: Kravice, I have urgent news.
Kravice: Okay? What is it.
Alfonse: Jeorge is stepping down as our representative.
Kravice: WHAT! BUT WHY!
Alfonse: He said...he’s tired of you.
Kravice: ...ouch...
Alfonse: We need a new representative. Someone who can bring up morale and encompasses the spirit of our castle!
--Camus’s Tit--
Kravice: [pacing the tactic’s room] I started learning to strategize for him and now he’s bailing like that!
Alfonse: I don’t think your tactics are the only reason. 
Kravice: I’ve done nothing but give him the worlds!
Alfonse: Well you’ve also killed him over two hundred times and fatally injured him twice that much
Kravice: But that’s less frequent now that I’m strategizing!
Alfonse: To be honest, Jeorge tolerated you much longer than I could’ve under your orders.
Kravice: What are you trying to say, Al.
Alfonse: You are...you...should really consider finding a new representative.
Kravice: Fucking! Camus’s Tit!
(context: That was my ingame name for a bit pshs)
--
[nowaki’s castle]
Nowaki: Hello--
Camus: [one(1) boob exposed] I have come with greetings from afar.
Nowaki: [slowly closes door]
--
(watching from afar)
Alfonse: I don’t think--
Kravice: Why do you take things so literally! 
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I didn’t write a script for these next parts but here’s what was gonna happen:
Sentimental stuff, Jeorge passes the torch of representative to Taku, Krav approves, big ol ModFam moment and Party.
Month or so later, Jeorge starts getting bored just relaxing in the Aether keep and wants to travel still. He finds out he’s going to be in a gauntlet, and since Taku is representative at the moment, he’s the one to assist Jeorge in the gauntlet. You all know what happened with the gauntlet. <3
Jeorge comes back out of retirement but only for guantlets and just scouting worlds. He has an attachment to gauntlets pssh. Taku vows to protect him from getting hurt. They agree to be equals and protect each other when Jeorge decides to join battle.
For now, Jeorge chills in the Aether Keep with the Reserves (Lucius, BK, Lewn, L!Azura, etc) aka: units I use when I have to because they’re actually kind of built. Although, I’m using Lewn more and more because of his stupid infinite.
That’s how the plot/timeline is going so far. I have so much story to tell but agh my hands, but I hope these scripts are good enough context for why character focus and groupings are shifting and stuff.
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writingonjorvik · 5 years
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Ideas w/ Amelia
I haven’t really been up to a full-fledged Can We Discuss lately, but I didn’t want to just vanish for a while with my move coming up without posting anything. So, here’s a smattering of ideas I think would be cool for SSO.
Change the transport system for Jorvik’s overworld to work like Jorvik’s city, clicking on locations on the map to go to instead of scrolling through the list.
Fix the prices between the Friends app and the website so that they’re the same on both. Also reduce the price of Star Coins so they make sense with other pricing in the game and in the industry.
Co-op wagon races where one person maintains the horses and the other controls the wagon.
Make a permanent version of the Cloud Kingdom with a Mario Kart style race with pickups and other items for more interesting multiplayer racing, then bringing the system down to a select number of regular races, like the Big 7 (the seven races that are always for birthday races and the most iconic).
Switch to an expansion based model instead of weekly updates to reduce major burnout and turnaround on the dev team, since the weekly update model is regarded to be extremely demanding by the industry as a whole. Or instead of expansions, have quarterly updates that add a large amount of quests and content, with weekly patches being for events and bug fixes.
Make a forum or a subReddit to host more AMA style events, particularly since it seems the devs are now responding to all kinds of feedback, positive and negative, and I really appreciate this and want to be able to engage more with them outside their emailing system. Having a forum for ideas would also reduce the influx of emails they have to respond to and simplify the reporting system.
Have an ingame reporting system for players with a prompt and drop down dialogue before reporting to reduce spamming, but also overall simplify the process. Also, as illustrated by the photo mode, being able to screenshot from inside the game is totally an option now.
Allow players to change their emails without contacting support.
Update all horse models that have two to just having the new one. This will help simplify the image of the game and also open up space in a lot of cluttered stables. It also will reduce the feeling of SSO just making new horses to sell more horses, which considering that they cost $30 USD apiece, feels grimy. It also reduces the amount of modeling the devs have to do when coding for all the old models as well as new ones. Long term benefits.
For “luxury”/expensive models, have more breed specific races. If you’re spending $30+ USD on a horse, you ought to get some other content. That’s as much as some game’s expansion packs.
Now that jumping is free, leading should be too. I said this before, and I’ll say it again, being able to use leading in content is an outstanding option and it shouldn’t continue to be locked behind a pay wall.
Now that jump is free, expand the free to pay area to include all of Silverglade. Don’t expand the quest list, but expand the area. Considering SSO’s two main features are its story and exploration, being able to explore all of Silverglade, make friends, look around, and meet NPCs feels like more of an incentive to buy membership than having such a restricted region. If there’s no increase to quests or dailies, being a free member is still less exciting than having membership, and they won’t have access to other areas like the Harvest Counties or South Hoof. But being able to see the areas they could unlock feels like more of an incentive to buy than the area that they have now.
Add an experience multiplier based on player level to horse experience. This gives players more of a reason to level, and it also helps balance out experience gain for higher level players who tend to have lots of horses. It also reduces the need for the devs to balance out experience gain. Also this tech is already in the game as shown by the old system where the starter horse received more experience in races than any other type of horse.
Give the player the option to have multiple character slots. This provides the game with so much replay-ability with out the price tag of additional membership.
Allow players to make up their own character name, and change it. There would need to be a new team dedicated to approving names, and players could have temporary names in the SSO system in the meantime, but it would allow players to personalize their characters more, and for players who joined before a wide range of names were an option, allow them to pick names they would actually want.
Update races with set pieces, like the Baroness Race Track. SSO adds new set pieces all the time for races, having two versions of the Baroness Race Track shouldn’t be that hard. If parts of the map can be reworked to have temporary obstacles for championships and races that only affect the racers, then this should be possible for this race too, and other old races.
Bring back the Scarecrow Hill Race. Again.
Update the Social tab.
Update the Help tab.
Capes, cloaks, and hoodies that take up shirt and hat spot, with the option to remove the hood.
Full body dresses and robes that take up the shirt and pants slot.
More mane hair styles. This one has been promised for a while.
Have official social media correspondents on Twitter and Tumblr. It’s almost 2019 and your Twitter is dead. It’s marketing 101 to have correspondents on all major platforms, and you don’t. This is your best access to community and marketing, why aren’t you doing this?
Stop with the “Girls > Boys” mentality. All genders are equal, and what you’re actually doing isn’t helping the feminist cause and it’s pandering. Take one from Shannon Hale on this. Boys can enjoy feminine things, and pressing this divide only hurts the argument. It also drives away potential customers.
Take the time to release new areas properly. South Hoof and Mistfall are aesthetically beautiful, but are barren gameplay wise, and we’re now going to have to wait years to see them finished.
Stop adding factions if players can’t 100% them.
Rebalance poorly balanced factions like the Sunfields and the Goldspurs.
Allow players to make their own orienteering races with friends using the waypoint tech.
Update inaccessible locations on the map list of locations. Some of these locations have been inaccessible for over four years now, like the “Not all that glitters is gold” location in Dino.
The player almost never takes damage. There’s no need for two health bars.
Make the library at the Winery useful and let us reread lore books to help remember story info between when that story info was used last and when it’s being brought back into the story.
A thrift store that lets you buy back items from quests, using the tech from the Lifetime store.
Have increased option control for players with good gaming rigs, like allowing for an increased render distance or being able to decide how many players are rendered at once and to what detail. SSO already has a loading period for adding detail to players, so for players with less advanced hardware, being able to lower down this detail rendering would make it easier to visit higher population areas. And for players with better rigs, it makes the game prettier.
If the devs want to promote less populated servers, then host events on those servers.
Redo Nic’s camp to use the Rescue Ranch system. Generally add more Rescue Ranch style quests in other areas.
Let the player jump while on foot. It adds almost nothing to gameplay, but it makes them feel like clunky. It also would help community classics like foot races.
Add left saddlebags.
Stylists should be able to mirror mane styles, so that the mane can fall on either side.
Players should either have to read quest dialogue after level 9 to know what they have to do or they shouldn’t. Quit waffling.
Achievements should have rewards, like titles, unique clothes, or access to hidden quests.
Bring back hidden quests.
If there are going to be cold resistant horses, then there should be other horses with abilities like that. Heat resistant horses, horses good at climbing with pass that only they can climb at full speed, horses that can cross bodies of water without a meter. If you’re going to make a system like that, then you gotta flesh it out.
And now I’ve been working on this list for over two hours, so I’m gonna leave it there so I still have something to talk about in Can We Discuss. Cool. Bye.
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akaluan · 5 years
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Masterpost By Month: March 2018
Dragon Eclipse:
Karakura Crew Part 9 - Sado Yasutora (Tiger Cubs Ch10)
Meeting Ryuuken Part 1
Meeting Ryuuken Part 2
Tatsuki Requests Training Part 1
Tatsuki Requests Training Part 2
DE Side Story: Shiro Sews
Post DE: Relaxing Together Part 4
The ability to ‘see’ the heart of the enemy during combat
Kaito’s survivor’s guilt and consequences
Kaito and Ichigo both suffer from depression
Kaito AND Ichigo have issues, this is no surprise
There are times when Kaito Just Can’t, and that’s okay
Kaito learns to have fun, and Kisuke’s thoughts on seeing Kaito begin to mimic him
Ichigo specifically doesn’t want to front around Tatsuki
Ichigo doesn’t front around the other teens until a lot later
What if the teens get confirmation that Kurosaki is like Kaito’s dead best friend
World-hopper Kaito in a canon-style universe
Kaito enjoys the chance to be silly and explore himself
Shining Eclipse:
Kaito treads carefully with AU!Urahara, and tries to pull the teens into the man’s orbit more firmly
The first night of Kaito’s arrival is a bit... murdery
Lilacs from the Dead Land:
Lilacs basic concept (why muse, why)
Lilacs Fragment 1
Lilacs Fragment 2 (potential future fragment)
Lilacs Fragment 3 (potential future fragment)
First Spar between Erich and Kisuke
Kisuke realizes Erich can Actually Fly
On memory loss and Soul Society in general
On how Erich survived four decades in the Rukongai as a Quincy
Erich stays on the move during the first weeks in the Living World
‘Hide in Plain Sight’ is part of that survival
Erich thinks the teens are criminally undertrained and is completely unimpressed by nearly everyone in Karakura except the teens
Erich is absolutely unimpressed with people, and believes that dirty fighting is 100% fair play
Erich is an old fashioned mage, but “old fashioned” actually means “experienced war mage” here
Uryuu is almost entirely self-taught, and Erich sets out to fix that
Erich is wary of Kisuke, and Kisuke is fascinated by Erich
Kisuke learns how to mix magecraft and Shinigami arts, and Erich is... wary
On Erich relearning how to use a computational orb, modern version
Erich and his chosen weapons
Erich and Zanpakutou
Zanpakutou are PART of their wielder? Erich isn’t sure he likes this implication
Erich has experience with over-powered individuals with Unique Personalities
Erich is Not Impressed By Much
Erich accepts that Kisuke is worthy of some respect, and is utterly Done with the ‘undercover’ Shinigami
Erich trolls the Shinigami
As a military man, Seireitei offends Erich so badly
If Erich wanted to be, he would be a terrifying enemy for Seireitei
Erich is also So Done with everything to do with Shinigami, the Wandenreich, and would-be conquerors in general
Erich is Completely Unimpressed with the Wandenreich
You really think Mayuri is surviving this story?
Of course, this has consequences
Still, the best revenge is living well
“Erich vs the eldest shinigami 4: fight! -w”
Erich doesn’t particularly like the Vizard, either
Erich on the Vizards
Erich and Ryuuken and how little they get along
Ryuuken really doesn’t appreciate Erich’s presence
Quincy uniform? No thanks. (He’ll wear it for the Impact if he has to)
On why no one before Erich combined magecraft and spiritual energy manipulation
Family relationships and the loss of the Quincy Mage skill tree
Uryuu discovers his relation to Erich
Uryuu learns German to feel closer to Erich
Uryuu makes Erich his emergency contact
The teens track down images of WW1 Erich
Uryuu makes a photo album for Erich
Erich is Uryuu’s role model, and proof that Quincy abilities aren’t lesser or worthless
Erich and Uryuu form very similar friendship groups
Erich is dangerous when he cuts loose
The very start of Erich and Kisuke’s friendship, and Erich’s opinions on Quincy Pride
Erich and Kisuke are surprised by friendship
Erich has his Dark moments, and many regrets about his life
Erich trusts Kisuke enough to be drunk in front of him
The Evolution of Erich and Kisuke’s Relationship
Yoruichi squirms her way into Erich’s regard as well
Kisuke likes to troll, and Erich really can’t imagine himself in a relationship with the blond (yet)
Lilacs From the Dead Land: A Revelation
Erich and Kisuke’s relationship (Orihime thinks it’s AMAZING, the Shinigami disagree)
The Shinigami are NOT HAPPY with this romance, and Erich takes working with Kisuke easily in stride
Kisuke and consent issues
Kisuke Doesn’t Get People
Erich and relationships
Kisuke is a Troll to the teens re: his relationship with Erich
Erich hopes Tanya isn’t still hanging around as a spirit
Erich will eat basically anything edible, Yuzu isn’t okay with this and invites him and Uryuu to dinner all the time
Erich prefers tea to coffee
Discovery of Ichigo’s Quincy heritage
Uryuu finds out he’s related to Ichigo
Ichigo, Karin, and Yuzu consider Erich a parent
Erich doesn’t like how under-trained everyone is
(He is absolutely not adopting the kids. He is not.)
Orihime also like Erich as a parental figure
Things Erich likes about the Living World
Erich gets a job? Idk frankly
Erich does not like remaining idle
Potential hobbies Erich might have
Erich picks up clockwork as a hobby
Erich finds a hobby (fic version)
Erich likes to gift people things he’s worked on with his own hands
Disney movies are an unexpected interest of Erich’s
Erich’s favorite Disney movie
Culture shock isn’t unexpected, after coming back from the dead four decades later
Uryuu also experiences a version of culture shock, and Erich teaches the teens war
Modern magecraft and why mages aren’t as well known in Bleach
Further thoughts on magecraft in the modern era
Maybe this Uryuu has secretly wavy hair
On what the European Continent looks like to a spiritually active person after two world wars
Seeing Europe doesn’t do good things to the teens
Urahara does what he can in Europe, but it’s precious little
Erich forged his self-control in the crucible of war, and even now it’s difficult to let go
Minor Crack: Quincy enablers -- Ryuuken
Minor Crack: Quincy enablers -- Byakuya interacting with Ryuuken
Evil by Neglect verse:
The main theme of We’re Listening is Healing
As Worlds Overlap (Bleach/Log Horizon):
On potential guilds and whether the teens know each other ingame
Oneshots:
Bleach/Madoka crossover: Tatsuki contracts with Kyuubi
About the Bleach/Madoka crossover
Meta:
On Tanya and how she perceives the world
Tatsuki and Powers
Tatsuki and Powers 2 (maybe I’ll use these ideas? Still undecided)
Tatsuki and Powers 3
Opinion: Isshin is a worse parent than Ryuuken, but they both suck (cw: abuse, alcohol, bad parenting)
Opinion: fanon trope of Isshin urging the other teens to avoid Ichigo has a basis in real life actions of actual abusers (and I’m always salty about how that gap time is portrayed)
On non-shitty redemption arcs and Ryuuken
Original Fiction:
Luminous Flame verse: Defining Characters
Luminous Flame verse: Primary Setting
Luminous Flame verse/Selverat’s Story: Rat’s story is canon bc I’m a crossover geek, and Nekir has a shit family life too (but not as bad)
Selverat’s Story: genders, self-crossovers, and why do I always write shitty home lives for my chars, ugh
Selverat’s Story: elemental characters, bad home lives (WHY), cw: death, attempted murder of a child, death via being set on fire
Selverat’s Story: elemental characters with bad home lives
Selverat’s Story: traumatized kid becomes living torch via elemental powers because MIGHT AS WELL
Selverat’s Story: Learning from the Myrsilk
Selverat’s Story: No, his mother didn’t know who she was having an affair with
Selverat’s Story: Bad as his home life is, Selverat does love his mother and she does her best by him
Selverat’s Story: And I’m serious, his home life is Bad, cw: brief discussion of various ways Selverat’s ‘father’ tries to kill him
Selverat’s Story: Selverat doesn’t make many friends, but his best one does survive
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may I request a modern AU in which the chocobros go on a good old fashion American roadtrip in the Regalia? and if they did, who would ultimately win control over their summer roadtripping playlist? thanks!
Hey there!!! Thanks so much for your request, I really loved writing it omgHope you guys enjoy reading this, and look forward to a new hc list shortly!!!
HC: The Bros on a Roadtrip
It was all Prompto’s idea, he suggested it one night at a bar
“Omg omg guys we should go on a roadtrip!” -Prompto
“Maybe… sounds like it would be cool…” -Noctis
“Yeah, could be fun. Camping in the great outdoors by night, cruisin the countryside by day…” -Gladio
They didn’t listen to what Ignis said about it (something logical and realistic, but the other bros said fuuuck that)
So they went on a roadtrip, giving Regis a mild heads up one day and driving off
Now. Let’s talk music…
Prompto, cause he’s in the passenger seat, decides most of it, as Ignis usually doesn’t care
So, they get stuck with either pop or indie stuff
Noctis doesn’t care too much; he’s usually asleep
Gladio sometimes cares, but he usually gets some time with the aux cord (he plays classic rock and metal music btw)
Ignis… Ignis rarely gives any fucks about what’s playing, so he lets Prom have a field day with music, but… if he doesn’t like a song or what’s playing… You bet your ass he will snatch that aux cord and play some smooth jazz or classical music for the next three hours (he says it’s to cleanse his palette)
So basically, Prom chooses the songs, but Ignis has the most power over music choice
And in saying that, Prompto also made five different playlists for the roadtrip: One with Gladio’s fave music, one with his own, one with ignis’ faves, and one with Noct’s faves, then one with random ass, typical summer-y montage type songs
He likes to switch up which one is playing
Ignis sometimes turns his nose up at some of the shadier diners they stop at along the way, but if the others beg enough he’ll eat there anyways
The bros camp most of the nights, and just like ingame, Iggy cooks (the camping idea was pretty much forced upon all of them by Gladio)
Ignis doesn’t like to let Noct ever see the map ‘cause then he’d make them stop at every body of water to go fishing and they’d never get anywhere
Prompto also doesn’t get to do too much navigator stuff, ‘cause he always gets turned around or distracted, making Ignis miss turns and go the wrong way allll the time
So, Gladdy is the official navigator
He’s so good at reading maps that he can do it upside down and backwards and every which way (he also takes them through the scenic routes so he deserves a gold star or somethin’)
Don’t get me wrong tho, he does mess up
Once he fell asleep with the map on his face and Ignis didn’t realize until they were an hour out of their way
Prompto has them stop at EVERY roadside attraction and takes so many pictures that he has to bring extra storage for them
His favorite attraction are the really dumb ones, like The World’s Biggest Ball of Twine, The Biggest Santa, the Jimmy Carter Peanut Statue, etc
He also loves the big attractions, like The Grand Canyon (even though he almost fell in while trying to take a good picture)
He also has them stop at any super pretty areas for pictures too
Ignis started saying no whenever Prompto asked to pull over, so now he always asks Noct (Noct can never say no to Prompto)
Oh, and in case you were wondering… Bathroom breaks. See here for more details.
Ignis is the one driving 90 percent of the time
Whenever he gets super tired, he lets Noct drive but Ignis always feels regret afterwards (Noct sometimes likes to brake check them if no other cars are around)
They let Prompto drive once, but that was the biggest mistake of all. He stopped every five mins for pictures, and at one point got so distracted by the scenery that he ran them off the road
So yeah
Prom doesn’t drive anymore
Gladio, on the other hand, outright refuses to drive (even though he has his license)
They stop for every meal because Ignis does not allow food in the precious Regalia
Speaking of the Regalia, they’re 90% sure they’re not supposed to take it on long trips or anything but… Noctis swear it’ll be fine
Noctis has to call his dad every night (Ignis always calls Regis behind Noct’s back to give him a truthful report)
Gladio has to call Iris every night too (his calls last at least half an hour, and it’s mainly him “mmhmm”ing at the stuff Iris tells him)
Sometimes Gladio gets a call from Iris during the day too, but usually it’s asking something small like, “Hey, Gladio, can I borrow your romance books?”
Normally, she’d want to text him instead, but Gladio hates texting, so she just calls
Speaking of calling family… Prompto tried to call his adopted parents to tell them about his trip (multiple times might I add), but they never answered the phone or called back after he left messages, so he just stopped trying
He gets kinda lonely seeing the other bros on the phone each evening (when they have signal, that is), but tries to hide it all the time
Noct noticed. He told Prompto to give Cor a call for him, “Let ‘em know what we’ve been up to…”
So he did. And then he did it again. And again. And soon, Prompto was calling Cor every other evening when the other bros’ called their families.
At first, Cor was confused and a little annoyed, but he had a liking for that kid, so he listened and talked to Prompto with no problem. Soon, he legit looked forward to hearing from Prompto’s calls and missed him when there were none. Cor tried to pretend that he didn’t feel like a dad to Prompto, but he started calling Prompto “son” in the end, anyways (Prompto may have accidentally called Cor “dad” or “pops” a few times, too)
Prompto likes to take his shoes off in the car and prop his feet up on the dash, but Ignis will stop the car and lecture him if he does
Noctis also takes his mismatched boots off, but his feet stink so he usually keeps them on…
Gladio doesn’t like to take his shoes off, but if he ever does, the stench would probably kill an entire ecosystem
Noctis has the worst roadtrip hygiene (he showers like, three times a week?)
Ignis? You bet that boi has some dry shampoo, some extra water for washing up, three different kinds of soaps… He’s all set. He will not go a single day looking or smelling like shit, mark my words
Prompto borrows Ignis’ soap here and there and he defo showers whenever he has the chance, but otherwise he just lives with insecurities about hygiene and hides his greasy hair with a beanie when they don’t have access to showers
Gladio is good with either. He’ll shower when he needs to, but he doesn’t let the grime get to him, like ever (“If our ancestors can live in the woods without a shower, so can I.”)
Ignis packs snacks and pulls the car over for snacktimes (he can’t have anyone going hungry on his watch!)
Sometimes Prompto will crank on some grand ole tunes that they all know and they’ll just cruise down the highway screaming lyrics (even Ignis will tap his hands to the beat and mouth the words with a dumb smile on his dumb, perfect face) and Prompto will take pics and it’s just such an A E S T H E T I C
Also Prom and Noct wear each other’s clothes sometimes when they can’t be fucked to grab their own (Gladio and Ignis are too specific in sizing to be able to wear the other bros’ clothes)
Prompto LIVeS for roadside diner food omfg
His stomach gives him hell for it and he’ll complain about gas or bloating but he can’t stop eating the greasy fries and overstuffed burgers
Ignis is disgusted by it all but he still eats it for the “original road trip experience” as he says (we all know you’re a slut for crap food sometimes, too, Ignis)
Prompto started collected cool looking rocks from each place they stopped at. Soon, his bag was too heavy to tote around and the bros were sick of hauling around heavy ass bags during camp, so he was forced to give him his collection (tho Ignis swore it was due to the ant infestation one rock caused but Prompto says otherwise)
Gladio, tho, he collects flowers. I know, surprising. He presses them between the pages of his books and plans on making a scrapbook (also surprising) with photos of them at the places they found the flowers pasted next to the pressed flowers themselves (he also presses extras to give to Iris, bless)
ANyways
They didn’t get proper permission to do this, they fought over sleeping arrangements and showers, and they argued over music sometimes, too
But in the end, they made memories that would last a lifetime and they began feeling like a weird lil family anyways
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