#like ot makes sense

[felicitywilds]

uhh??????? UHHHHHH????????

left is sapphria's art from COC, and right is the Fellowship's insignia from a piece of art by @nanaluvbug

#the ravening war #a crown of candy #fellowship of destiny's architects #dimension 20 #sapphria rocks #coc #acoc #trw #d20 #like ot makes sense #but im. i cant be the first person to notice this #by me #THANK U NANALUVBUG FOR MAKING ME REALIZE #coc was my heyday as wiki editor #seeing the hands drawn out that way made me realize I had seen it before on one of the rock sister statues #I thought it was lazuli because blue #but of course sapphria is RIGHT THERE #and has much much more of a reputation as a behind the scenes woman

[m3ntal-hiatus]

FROM “LOFI CHARMED” TAPE RECORDERS TO COMPUTERS OLDER THAN “THE BRONZE AGE COLLAPSE”?? THE WEB IS STILL ACTIVE IN TMAGP????

FUCKING FUCK.

THEY ARE SO SCREWED

#i have a theory…. #that this is the Web’s big plan to start their own ritual #mind you i’m only on ep.1 so Be Gentle with my line of thinking #tmagp shitpost #tmagp spoilers #tmagp #the magnus protocol #like it makes sense so far?? the sheer fact the machinery is working in ways ot definitely shouldn’t and is reading out literal statements #someone is being manipulated by the Web in an office comedy space taken by the Eye #i CANNOT do this again

[curry-and-casteliacones]

Ok so I might by chance be dumb? But um.. Volo as Barry's ancestor?? Idk if I haven't seen other people mention this because it's a stupid idea, or i just have missed it somehow. But like you can't tell me these two hairstyles aren't even a little similar.

And then there's the whole thing of Volo kinda acting like a rival how he just sorta pops up to talk with/fight u from time to time.

I mostly find this idea amusing cuz imagine if Barry ever let's his hair grow out it would continue to do the stupid reverse gravity thing Volo's does.

#it's literally 6 am and i just woke up from being passed out for like 12 hours because ive been sick the l ast couple days so if this #makes like no sense ill come back and delte this later when im coherent but like #idk i feel like smth could be here??? #or maybe not #after all my best ideas def dont come while im sick and sleepy #pokemon #pokemon diamond and pearl #pokemon legends arceus #pokemon volo #pokemon barry #im so tired i wanna go back to sleep but i missed dinner last night by sleeping so like now im hungry... #im th eone who made dinner last night too i ust went ot bed right after it was done #anyway it wouldnt be a post of mine w o me rambling in the tags but imma go get some food now #pokemon legends arceus spoilers #pokemon spoilers #i still have no clue if i gotta keep tagging post game stuff as spoilers but i will

[thisisntreaver]

Okay question

Does anyone else feel like fem hobw has very different vibes than male hobw, based on voice alone?

Like they're both very good performances, but I feel like the energy they bring is super different.

#fable #fable 3 #idk how to explain it #i guess thenclosest would be like #m hobw is trying to emulate Logan by buring his feelings hes v monotone a lot at times where f is showing how ot effects her #like fs reaction to the emotional turmoil and mental strain of being a hero is letting it seep out she doesn't really hide #whole m is hiding it until the moments he can't anymore #does this make sense #is this anything #does anyone else understand #am I just going a lil buck wild over here and over analyzing

[comas-are-for-sleeping]

its so mindboggling that people can go “how can you say free palestine if you’re queer” as if the opinions a person has changes the validity of their life??? yall sound real similar to the people saying trans people are a danger to society

#like how can you seperate that #mass murder of a group based on something they habe zero control over is wrong full stop #stg though i see this So Much and it makes zero sense #yeah ok i dont like the values the far right holds but i dont think they should all die? #and like also completely disregards even the *possibility* that there are queer ppl in palestine? #So Interesting to me bc as soon as you can depersonalize ot suddenly you side with the oppressors #i just actually cant stop thinking abt this #like how can you say ‘trans rights’ and then turn around and ignore the bombing of hospitals #how can you say ‘equal rights’ for any marginalized community while not seeing this as a genocide #whats different? #genuinely what is different #yall literally sound like the transphobes trying to say most people regret transitioning when there’s overwhelming evidence this isnt true #like holy texts didnt matter when they were used against gay ppl but now you use it as justification for the mass slaughter of palestinians #obviously not to say the bible actually said any shit against gay people but like. yall fr #since when have we let people’s *interpretation* of holy texts validate murder #what is different #i know im prolly preaching to the choir and also im lowkey terrified of this reaching an audience that disagrees #bc i am not prepared to come up w evidence based arguments #i do not have time for that #rambles

[larnax]

no therion's story doesn't only make sense if you do a solo run. i've seen this take multiple times and every time i'm completely baffled because No It Doesn't. not true. false. incorrect.

like okay this does require you to understand that the literal words a character says are not necessarily the truth, but therion's story and gameplay both make way more sense if you accept the fact that therion is not a loner and shouldn't be one.

let's start with the beginning! the FIRST scene you see of therion is him meeting darius at age 11, who he will spend the entire rest of his childhood with and implied some time into adulthood, so he has spent probably the majority of his career as a thief working in a team, which is also borne out in his gameplay, because thief is a support class.

don't argue with me i'm right. while you can run therion as a DPS, investing in attack over speed and evasion means that therion's frailty gets in the way, and he struggles to do damage on par with olberic/h'aanit/alfyn, and cyrus/tressa do way more elemental damage than he does. however, if you instead spec him for support, share SP becomes the most insane skill in the game. a speedy therion can debuff a boss into oblivion before they have a chance to do much before stealing enough SP to let olberic fire off three divine skills without needing a refill. dancer therion is worth doubling up on weapons because his speed and evasion means that he can buff allies quickly and a dancer/thief is the only combo that will regularly dodge attacks before the late game.

therion's skills primarily revolve around giving allies openings to more easily take down enemies(i mean for balancing reasons but play with me in this space) because that's the job he had when he worked with darius. he's not an especially skilled combatant on his own because he didn't need to be, his job was to pin foes down so darius could spam sweep.

additionally, while i hate this decision badly, therion's percentages are fixed so that every chapter past the first has a necessary skill check that's very difficult to pass without either a glean info character and a KO NPC character(why did they do base 3% brigand leader's garb to him.), again because he's used to having someone else deal with gathering information and doing the majority of the fighting for him. he's not terrible at getting info out of people, but he's also not great at it, for example he just goes along with barham's scheme instead of finding a way to threaten or coerce him into revealing the info right away. like basically all of his plans would've failed if the guards or his informant had just said No and refused to help him as opposed to cyrus who responds to being told no by finding out that his informant's daughter died in order to manipulate them into coughing up the info he wants. therion might be capable of manipulation beyond basic impersonation or pretending to be friendly, but if he is we don't see it.

therion in general is also a very passive character if you look past his words at his actual actions. he resists for about two seconds when heathcote cuffs him before following their orders for the rest of the story even when he's uncuffed in chapter 2 when he's still not a huge fan of the ravuses. he again goes along with barham even when he's almost certain he's being fucked with. he is almost always either acting on someone else's orders or defending himself from someone else's attacks. the reason for this is best illustrated in one of the cutscenes with darius where it's made pretty clear that for the majority of their partnership, he kept therion dependent on him to make decisions, and because that started when he was relatively young it's likely that therion just doesn't have that strong of an instinct for advocating for himself or firmly saying no to people twisting his arm(he asks darius a question once and gets thrown off a cliff for it, implying he was even more obedient before that). he can say no once, but we have no idea if he would've given in to the bandits at the beginning if they hadn't responded to his initial no by attacking him, so it does actually make perfect sense that any of the stronger-willed travelers could just respond to that no by saying they weren't asking and dragging him along. he's prickly and verbally hostile, but that mostly seems like a defense mechanism because otherwise he's easier to coerce than ophilia. i get that this seems like i'm trying to infantilize therion but that's really not my intention, in fact that takes the Therion Doesn't Kill People point i made awhile back reflect less on his being a secretly good person and more being too passive to feel the need to finish the job and generally makes him more morally ambiguous because it's less clear what decisions he makes due to personal growth and what he makes due to inertia. is he a good person, or is he just too tired to be a bad person? ideally the story would actually go somewhere with that theme but it wouldn't be octopath if they didn't periodically drop the most insane writing that rewires my brain before either doing nothing with it or actively ruining it.

also, therion's story gets way stronger if he's in a party, because while cordelia and heathcote are (TREATED AS) the reason he learns to trust again, in-story they spend, what, one hour together maybe? cordy and heathcote are his bosses and the most either of them do cordelia using her empath powers to deduce that therion looks sad or heathcote telling him that he's the real asshole for being mad that he's being blackmailed. they're also canonically lying to him when they say they don't know what the dragonstones are, so even at the end of the story they don't really trust him(i wont spend too much time complaining abt them i just don't think you get to be a savior character if the town you own has a ghetto). on the other hand, if you do his story with a party the travel banters all make some attempt at showing therion slowly coming to trust and rely on them despite initial friction, and in gameplay therion acting as a support expresses the theme of him realizing that he actually can work in a team where his allies have his back and there are people he can trust. in that instance his final conversation with darius includes him talking about his companions, because to be here at all they have accepted him after seeing him at his worst and helped him despite it, and who he's been able to help in turn. if you're doing a therion solo run he's just talking about how his boss who's blackmailing him for free labor said he looked sad one time, which is a pretty weak climax if we're going to be real. i stand by saying that octopath works best when it's episodic and stories shouldn't rely on specific characters to work, but genuinely i do think therion's story's themes being expressed strongly in gameplay and the nature of rpgs with a party system are quite cool and my favorite thing about his story.

so it specifically annoys me when people are like "oh well he limply says no before letting you continue to drag him around" like it's a plot hole and not a character trait especially when therion's being a prickly asshole who is also a complete doormat is i think very interesting characterization!!!! ophilia commenting on the fact that therion has no instinct for revenge and therion says "yeah what's the point" makes me so normal.

ALSO why's therion the poster boy for "hey this character's story doesn't make sense with their gameplay" when primrose exists???? why it so contradictory a character whose story is about them learning to trust in their companions again to be in a party while a character who starts off by telling you to fuck off and leave her alone because this is her fight before heel-turning for no reason and then just continuing to be your ally with no justification is totally fine. also why is primrose a support class???? she's not a dancer she's an assassin she doesn't support anyone in her story and her character is about her singleminded and specific familial revenge. she's also a very strongwilled character so it makes no sense that she wouldn't just say no and mean it. i know the answer is that octopath doesn't like women so primrose just got slapped into a princess jasmine costume and femme fatale character before any of her story was actually developed but like oh my goddddddd. primrose girl im so sorry they put you in the nightmare hell dimension.

#c.paradisi #octoposting #i get that to a degree this is an interpretation #octopath never says any of this stuff explicitly enough that i for sure think thats what they were going for #but at the very least it feels like a really weirdly uncharitable reading of his character #his entire story is abt learning to trust his companions again. why would it not make sense for him to have companions #to be uncharitable right back i think its a thing that happens a lot in fandom #where characters are reduced to who they are at the very beginning of a story #and then further simplified into tropes #therions a criminal so he is an evilbadman who hates people and loves crime #which is boring. i think thats a boring direction to take his character in. #it also makes other characters more boring bc you have people infantilizing tressa or alfyn so therion can be evilbadman-er in comparison #i have so many thoughts on cordelia and heathcote though #theyre very well-written villains that do a really good job of mirroring darius and illustrating therions passivity as a character #ot just doesnt uhhhh. seem to realize that.

[mint-is-here]

ok so i read @cherrly moana x lmk fic and i really liked it!!! but it gave me an idea on macaque's powers

so, you know how macaque is refered to as the Moon?? the moon shines on the sky every night, but how does it do that?

it reflects the light of the sun

now, macaque is shown to be able to absorb Wukong's powers by MK, apparently by just spending time with him

but its never quite the same.

the moon can reflect the light of the sun, but it will never be able to shine as bright as it. it only holds a glipse of the power it has.

(also. macaque is the only one shown to be able to use LBD's ice powers without being possesed. like yeah bai he and wukong could also do that but a) possession b) wukong is wukong, he can mostyl handle it and C) bai he was the main host. she might have been able to posses wukong but it's shown how her using her powers might have destroyed bai he if she wasnt careful. Not even the Mayor could use it and whatever was inside him was strong enought to possess The Great Sage. just something to add)

idk its just something i thought ramdonly byeee-

#he can absorb people's #powers #idk what i'm doing with this idea but it is definelty an idea #i was going ot add something about his abilities acting similar to a parasite but couldnt really expand it beyond #lmk #stuff #idk if any of this makes sense but thats just a though #and my thoughts normally dont make a lot of sense mosto fthe time #its like #i have so many ideaa #but if i try to explain them i wont be able to #since i lose the core of the idea somehow #it feels like my thoughts are all racing againts each other to see which one i'm goign ot talk about #but they keep tripping into each other and never really make it to the end #its weird

[anwn]

would it be insane for me to say people only like prime shadow because he has a more heroic role despite having the same characteristics they dislike in his other depictions... would it be insane to say shadow feels kind of mellowed down as a result.... like hes not allowed to completely embody his character because he also has to play substitute to sonic's heroic presence because the sonic we have can't totally deliver on that aspect. would it be insane for me to say its kinda like a domino effect where downplaying sonic inevitably leads to their dynamic shifting to accommodate this change which leads into having to downplay shadow as well. can i say that

#im. not sure if this makes sense but whatevs right #bit hesitant to tag this bc i dont want ot to feel like im trying to rain on anyone's parade #but. but. #blingee.txt #sonic #shadow #sonic prime

[qrowscant-art]

Super loving your art! I am curious though, did IS-OT start as a wall-mounted unit and then later got a more movable body? Or did they just pretend to be more stationary to seem less likely to attack?

thank you! and, the first! kind of? technically IS-OT starts as a facility-wide AI that can only really control a small portion of the building. after he completely overtakes the building, he builds himself a few bodies, with his favorite being the one i draw most often. he hates how humans are built but envies the fact that they can like, actually move lol.

his chassis is... mostly for show? ultimately pointless? it still has to be connected to the building to function (meaning he is still trapped) and it doesn't have a nervous system to feel anything, but it's better than nothing! when you're an AI left to rot in an abandoned outpost, even the illusion of freedom is nice, haha. if anything, it gives him enrichment in the form of hunting military personnel that occasionally show up.

#it's kind of like playing with a doll for him? if that makes sense #inquiries #cuddlebearable #tthw #is-ot

[otakusapien]

I think Zerxus being atheist is integral to the decisions he’s making right now.

People are giving him so much crap for trusting a god of lies and deceit “because he looks like his husband.” Everyone’s very quick to point to the lore about Asmodeous and why this is such an obviously bad choice, but they’re completely forgetting

Zerxus doesn’t believe in the lore

It’s not that he’s stupid or willing to trust a pretty face, it’s that none of the lore matters to him because he doesn’t believe in it in the first place. Why should he trust what the other gods have to say about this guy when he doesn’t think any of them are worthy of worship? How are they any different than enemy kings spewing venom about each others’ misdeeds?

Zerxus is aware this isn’t a normal person, of course. That’s why he makes a point of trying to ingratiate himself and humanity. But he doesn’t look at this devil man and see a god. He sees a person who is suffering.

#exu spoilers #exu calamity #zerxus ilerez #i'm relatively new to the world of critical role so I expect I'm missing a lot of context #but at the same time I feel like a ot of that context #is gonna be based on knowledge zerxus wouldn't have access to at this point (or that hasn't happened yet) #tl;dr I think his choices make a lot of sense from a rp pov #critical role spoilers

[ah0yh0y]

on the power of  cabin 10

part of me wants to think the bad image of the cabin is to do with pipers view point

and also the collective viewpoint of the enitre camp

another part of me wants to think they cultivatd the whole weak and powerless thing on purpose

see people may think that love is non threating right?

but theres a reason why Love  hangs around War illicitly

they both cause destruction

its what they mutually admire about one another

love is cruel always eventually souring and festering into an ugly emotion one that fuels Rage

and Rage is essential for war

love gives people things to fight for and love is easily broken

love can be kind and all of us know in this world kindness is a commodiity and easily weaponised - also seen within War 

this whole spiel may seem disjointed but it echos the true nature of Love - incomprehendable too large of a feeling too large of a force for a mere human to  fully truely understand 

and that is what makes it dangerous

s0

i need cabin 10 content where they have like a secret lab and make like magic makeup and are disguise masters and are not weak  and own the fact they like to look good or not look good and are powerful in there own way 

aLso 

this ties in to my headcanon that the the “shoes of shame” are part of  an inititation ritual  bc in the Lost Hero the gasps and shudders of cabin 10 seems incredibly fake (perhaps learning the meaning of true beauty/love  is not hwat you wear??) and once they pass it - they learn of the cabins true agenda and where the true power lies 

#cabin 10 #aphrodite cabin #pjo #hoo #apollogists #yes this is form the toa discord but i like this so here deal wiht ti #will i ever learned ot spell no #hsuhduhduhuh= #drew tanaka #lacy #valentia diaz #mitchell #the power fo friendship #the power of love #also how do aroace people see aphrodite? #this is disjoineted but it makes sense to meeeeeee #+ discord is pain bc capying and pasting messages never goes right it took me ages tomake some semblance of coherance bc of it #it is still nto coherant #toa #heores of olympus #heroes of olympus #percy jackson and the olympians #ahoys thoughts #ahoy wonders #ahoy

[shaniacsboogara]

poking at my dear evan hansen hyperfixation with a stick. STAY BACK!!! I ALREADY VANQUISHED YOU!!! WHY ARE YOU CREEPING BACK INTO MY MIND!!!

#tbf it's more of an “everyone is alive and also friends but in a nuanced way” au that my brain made up #like HOW FUCKING INTERESTING would it be if the musical had a similar plot but connor was alive??? #they THINK he's dead and evan still gets accused of being his friend but CONNOR'S NOT DEAD HE'S ALIVE #and then his family's like “oh we invited your friend evan over to see you” OR MAYBE HE JUST SHOWS UP and of course Connor's gonna say “wtf #like “that's not my friend fuck you” but since he's connor they're gonna think he's just being an asshole #and through some turn of events these boys decide to lie about being friends and shit #everything spirals a bit but they actually DO end up connecting over their issues and shit idk #not making it a “uwu they're besties!!!” type thing just... everything's just as messy #they just accidentally trauma bond sort of #lots of nuance and shit lots of complicated things going on #shit like this rots my brain #connor and alana getting along is also super important to me btw #alana “worked on one project with connor and now wants to help him because that's what a good person does” #she helps knock some sense into him and he helps her be less high strung #jared being caught up in all of this and starting to get jealous of connor but not wanting to show ot #because he was evan's friend FIRST #and evan was one of his only friends #ALSO MIGUEL COMING BACK??? (book character mention omg) #maybe not like a huge thing but connor needs to see him at least once #also autistic evan because he is #deh #dear evan hansen #average boog post

[anghraine]

Not sure why, but I was just thinking about how much Anakin struggles with Jedi expectations and rigidity before his fall, and yet in some ways he's particularly dogmatic about Jedi identity and practice as Vader.

I remember doing a long liveblog of ANH many years ago on lj, before re-watching the prequels, and being like "does he recite Jedi catechisms or mantras every day before he leaves his breathing pod? Because that's the vibe I get."

And he does continue to identify himself as a Jedi in ESB and, of course, Luke's identification of him as a Jedi in ROTJ lies at the core of their tangled character arcs. But it's interesting that turning on the Order, calling them evil, and helping the Empire wipe out most of the Jedi doesn't lead him to abandon that part of himself at all. If anything, he's all the more aggressively doctrinaire as a fallen Jedi.

#it might be an evolution in lucas et al's conception of him #like the whole point in the ot is that he was kind of this paragon who fell—that's why it's so tragic #while lucas wanted him to be this rebellious difficult figure by the prequels #but idk it makes a horrible kind of sense that he'd cling to a sense of continuity and authoritative dogma as vader #in some ways for the same reasons that he follows the emperor's will until esb #and luke breaking through being mediated /through/ anakin's jedi identity rather than against it #just works so well #it's not 'you need to abandon this commitment to the force and this thing that's essential to who you are' #it's 'you can still do that and also be free' and ... ;_; #anghraine babbles #star wars #anakin skywalker #luke skywalker

[ominoose]

"Reblog to support creators, it's fandom etiquette" agreed, however please keep in mind the queue system and not everyone will enjoy your specific work.

#if this doesnt make sense lmk #and this is NOT directed or targeted #but i see this said #and as someone with 200+ posts in the queue #i get worried people assume the worst #also sometimes i read fics i dont enjoy #but i recognise someone spent time on it and enjoyed making ot #so i like because i like to leave something yknow

[firefly-fez]

in all honestly a resolution in ahsoka and obi wan’s relationship would be nothing but tragedy. meeting after order 66 wouldn’t go…well. there is immediate relief to see that the other is alive. just as quickly, there is guilt. obi wan’s guilt. he cannot bring himself to tell her that he is anakin’s killer. ahsoka sees obi wan’s depression. he looks hopeless and lost. the mentor she knew is gone forever. she sees the guilt in his eyes thinking it’s because he couldn’t save anakin. she tries to tell him it’s not his fault, he’s not alone, she loved him too, they can grieve him together— he won’t let her in. the obi wan she knew is gone; what can she do? she cannot help someone who does not want to be helped. he won’t talk to her about what happened and she doesn’t understand why. years later, she understands why. in horror, at last, she understands why. she’s questioning everything all over again. how can she trust herself? everything she was ever taught was taught to her by— him. obi wan, still nothing like his old self, but a little better, now, thanks to the purpose luke (and leia) have given him, runs into ahsoka again. he recognises her guilt, her grief, her doubt, immediately. her fear. her fear of herself. she knows. his belated attempt to be there for her isn’t the comfort he hoped it would be. it’s not that she’s angry. not at him. it’s just that she doesn’t believe him. not anymore. he tries to reassure her that she is not destined to fall into the dark side. all ahsoka hears are empty words. his belated belief in her is just empty now. you believed in him, too, she says, defeated. you always said we were so alike. give me a reason. any reason to believe in me that you haven’t once said about him.

and he can’t.

#obi wan #ahsoka tano #i actually think that the distance between obi wan and ahsoka in the rebellion era makes a LOT of sense #beyond ‘we can’t retcon the OT so… uh…they think that each other are dead’ #ahsoka represents everything obi wan doesn’t want to confront after mustafar #and by the time he has healed enough to be ready #she is all grown up; grown away from him; and his voice is no longer the voice of counsel and reason she goes to for guidance #even after they both know the truth about vader #they’re not on the same page #obi wan leaves his confrontation convinced anakin is gone and vader is his killer #ahsoka leaves her confrontation with vader believing anakin remains. she tries to bring him out again and almost succeeds. #obi wan breaks the mask and sees anakin dead #ahsoka breaks the mask and sees anakin alive #they are not on the same page #i think obi wan can’t accept cader could be redeemable #because he can’t accept that HE can’t be the one to save him. he can’t accept that he’s not enough #but i think that ahsoka could. luke and leia could bring something out of anakin that she cannot just like they did for obi wan #no matter how hard he tries obi wan just can’t find the words to convery his faith and pride in ahsoka #putting his wholehearted faith into her means nothing after his wholehearted faith in anakin proved to be undeserved #how can he find the words? #he cannot #someone could #someone could remind her that she is able to let go; something anakin never could do; that she is more like qui gon now than her master #she embodies the true selflessness of the jedi; for she doesn’t prioritise lives based on how much she loves them but by their innate worth #you have mastered the very lesson that anakin could not; which led to his fall #someone could find the right words #but i don’t think that someone could be obi wan #because that would mean admitting that /anakin/ fell; it goes against the lie that vader killed him #OT era obi wan is still in denial #but i think ahsoka acknowledges anakin’s duality in a way obi wan can’t accept

[tiredstressedemotionalmess]

HIII

HIIII :D

she got the call.

cut yourself in conversation,

a part of you left the room.

well, i was there on the day

we hold in our hearts

all the angels - my chemical romance//kissing you goodbye - the used//everyone but you - the young veins//disenchanted -my chemical romance//desert song - my chemical romance

Send me a 'hi' and I will put my playlist on shuffle, write down the first line of five songs and give it to you as a poem!

#asks #ask game #this feels like the first half of a poem but irs missing the rest yk? #this is my Emotions playlist and also my sleep playlist and more often then not my headaches playlist :p #i added punctuation to the poem bc it looked better that way i think. makes a little but more sense with it #also i promise this playlist is not just my chem idk why ot took like. every fucking mcr song on it andbolayed that first