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softichill · 3 months

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You put sans jevil and spamton in a room who makes it out alive?

PS: spamton does get [[Power Of Neo]]

(My own reasoning in the tags)

#ask #undertale #sans #deltarune #jevil #spamton #poll #polls #I WAS just gonna respond with my own thoughts but I wanna know what y'all think #*cracks knuckles* okay SO #It would take a lot to get Sans to actively fight either of these guys to the death. Sans mainly operates by rule of funny #and his fight is only hard because he's decided that you should die over and over again in the hopes of getting you to give up #Jevil and Spamton meanwhile are very earnest and volatile. Jevil knows the world is a game and believes that nothing matters.#Spamton is desperate to ascend and become part of the real world. He will do anything. Absolutely anything.#Though it's because of that desperation that I think Spamton will lose first #This is mainly going by the fact that Spamton's fight (to me) is the easiest out of the three and the main appeal is the story you get #Rather than Jevil where the appeal is that it's weird and fun to play and Sans that it's ridiculously hard and hard-hitting (emotionally)#Sans would only start to fight Jevil out of reluctance and he wouldn't really care about winning and Jevil is just here to have violent fun #Which means that Jevil wins

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l-just-want-to-see · 6 months

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can i just point out that Joel was a loner for third life. he was a deranged crazy person loner during last life. in double life he had a solid alliance of two (2). in limited life he had a solid alliance of three (3)!! and with the mounders he had an alliance of… four!!!! now you might think oh fun. moving on. but no!!! the tragedy of the life series is that they are trapped in an endless cycle. the canary the widow’s alliance the dogs the crastle the seasons whatever. but Joel? he’s breaking out of his narrative.

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acecroft · 2 months

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THE FOLLOWING 1.08

#thefollowingedit #tvedit #the following #tim nelson #warren kole #joe carroll #james purefoy #mygifs #televisiongifs #cinemapix #userstream #too bad true loyalty means shit to joe #just like to ANY cult leader #joe's in it only for joe #and he always play a long game #(the only one he bent his own rules for was ryan lol)#i just always thought roderick was an interesting character #had interesting dynamic with joe #but they just got rid of him too soon

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childrenofthesun77 · 3 months

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I know mahiru is often seen as not smart (his official stats from the guidebook give him a 2 out of 10 for tactics and I think the mental stat is more about mental stability?) and sure he's not a tactical genius like mikuni or touma (both have 10/10 in tactics) but mahiru is extremely socially/emotionally intelligent, which is an intelligence often overlooked in favour of "classic" intelligence (like being good at math or things like chess).

But unlike other characters mahiru knows when to stand his ground and when to lay low and change a person's view slowly over time.

Misono wasn't on his side in the beginning, even saying mahiru could be his servant when mahiru agreed to work with him, but mahiru quickly picked up on the fact that misono was lonely and offered to be his friend. Now misono trusts him completely and recognizes that mahiru's strength lies in gaining allies.

Shuhei openly hated vampires and treated them as things and mahiru responded by humanizing them, listing examples of vampires acting just like normal people, laying the first stone for shuhei to stop wanting to kill all vampires.

He was the one who proposed the idea that tsubaki would come to rescue lilac because tsubaki sees his subclass as family and he was right.

Neither lawless nor licht were overly impressed by him when they first met him, but by the time he asks them to rescue tsurugi especially lawless is one of his biggest supporters.

In C3 he understood that he wasn't going to be able to move if he opposed them and joined them instead, allowing him and the other eves to meet. He also correctly concluded that getting tsurugi on their side was key because he was central to C3's/touma's plans and in the end it saved his life and allowed him to stop touma.

Mahiru consistently trying to protect tsubaki's subclass might also come in handy soon. They might not like C3, but both lilac and sakuya can vouch for mahiru as a person they can trust not to kill them and to aid them in stopping tsubaki from destroying himself.

And stopping tsubaki by convincing him to stop is perfectly logical. A servamp can't be killed as far as we know. Combat only gets you so far. If C3 want to create a lasting co-existence between vampires and humans getting both sides to stop killing each other and to learn to forgive is the only way.

Trying to solve this conflict through conversation and not violence is neither shortsighted nor childish, it's the only reasonable solution.

#servamp #mahiru shirota #mahiru doesn't have to be a genius at tactics as long as he has enough of “smart” people on his side and gets them to exchange information #touma was kind of screwed the second mahiru got tsurugi to turn against him within a week or so #and even with 13 mikunis it looks like mikuni might be screwed #it might turn into a simple numbers game at this point #all the eves sans mikuni and almost all servamps sans jeje and lily are on mahiru's side #add to that the enterity of C3 including some people believed to be dead and tsubaki's subclass against tsubaki lily and mikuni #(I'm excluding jeje because he's captured right now)#that's a lot of people against a small group that didn't bother to gather people loyal to their cause #this isn't chess where both sides start with the same amount of pieces and you can whittle down your opponent #while mikuni played chess mahiru played shogi even if he didn't know it #taking pieces mikuni discarded and adding them to his own side #I'm not sure if superior skill/power in a few single persons means that much if you have a huge number of also skilled/powerful people #working together to stop you #even without literary knowledge that tells me that the heroes are going to win I would bet on mahiru's side #even mikuni's arguments trying to stop tsubaki's subclass from intervening are weak

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cruesuffix · 4 days

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something i keep thinking of is a mötley crüe streamer au…like i’ve been writing about it for most of the morning.

vince

vince would be a sort of gossip streamer, like he streams the latest gossip and stuff like that. he’s like if a drama channel on youtube had a twitch stream (he calls it Gossip Corner)

i think he’d also do make up looks, and they’d all be very complicated. he’d also recreate historical looks (like 1920’s flapper girl makeup) just for fun but his fans love it and keep asking him to do it.

would update fans on how the bands doing, shit talks his members (with love) and exposes whatever weird shit they do. sometimes one of the members catches him doing it live and is in the comments begging him to stop.

loves hearing the fans gossip, will try to give advice (this suddenly becomes a segment on his streams…mostly gives very weird and almost terrible advice because he doesn’t take it that seriously).

sometimes joins nikki on his streams when he’s reacting to something interesting (talks over him a lot and makes nikki almost banning him from coming on his streams).

always complains about missing a moldy stream, mick never tells him when he’s going to do one.

nikki

most of his streams are him reacting to something

he has set schedules for streams and he almost streams everyday

varies from stupid memes to new music

he always reacts to new music on fridays (appropriately called “New Music Fridays”), and he’s uber critical about the music he reacts to (unless it’s some of his friends, then he’ll get all bootlicker)

hypes up the other members streams all the time, even during his own streams. sometimes will abandon his own stream to watch one of the members streams (mostly mick)

does “try not to laugh” challenges with tommy on stream

always fights his chat if they’re being a bit negative during new music fridays

mick

ok this one’s gonna be good

so, whenever mick does livestreams while drunk, everyone calls it a “Moldy Streams” (mainly because mick always refers to himself as being “moldy” when he’s wasted) those are the streams that always go viral.

he usually streams himself playing video games, but does other things like reacting to videos that everyone requests, playing his guitar, doing really weird things (he once tried to see how much hairspray would make his hair really stiff). he usually tries to play certain video games while drunk but he constantly loses and it makes him go insane (one time he was trying to play geometry dash and couldn’t even make it past the first level and immediately started to bash his head against his desk).

when he’s not absolutely wasted, he’s still a bit weird and does things to avoid going silent. one time he tried to stand up on his rolling chair and almost fell. all he could say was “i just wanted to see if i could do it.”

tommy loves to come over to his room when he’s doing a moldy stream just to see how ridiculous he’s being. he’s literally just in the corner of the room laughing hard as mick screams in agony about whatever game he’s playing.

gets tricked into playing doki doki literature club (ifykyk) because a viewer said it was just a cute game about schoolgirls who are in a poetry club together (he’d probably be like “aww that’s something my daughter would like :)”). literally halfway through the game he’s throughly disturbed. constantly goes “you guys lied to me, what is this?” by the end of it he’s just tired and can’t believe he played a game like that.

i’ve said this before but he’s so jerma coded, just purely chaotic and weird but everyone loves him and constantly thirsts for him (he purposely ignores those comments unless he’s a bit buzzed).

tommy

does literally anything

loves joining in on nikki and mick’s streams and just being there

he’d do something scandalous like wear a speedo and try not to get banned somehow if he did get banned his fansbase comes together to get him unbanned (which somehow works) and it ends up with twitch unbanning him and reworking the guidelines so that you can wear things like speedos as long as you’re explicit on the age range that should be watching (he’s gotta title things like “time to get freaky (18+)” but he finds it funny so it doesn’t matter).

he’s kind of a wild card in that nobody really knows what they’re going to get when they watch his stream…one time he literally tried to make an ikea bookshelf in his room and nearly threw a hammer at the wall, within 30 minutes he’d moved on to watching some dumb tiktok compilation.

he would SO watch fan edits of himself and react to them live (he loves all of them and is so amazed that people could make things like edits).

all of his streams have “tommy funny stream moment” youtube compilations made as soon as it ends.

the band as a whole would regularly livestream rehearsals, soundchecks, a couple of q&as together. that’s all i really have, i just had a lil idea that’s all!

#crüe headcanons #i like thinking of what the crüe would be like if they started now #i would love to watch a moldy stream #nikki is always so pretentious when he’s doing a new music friday so his chat has to put him in his place #vince is such an amateur at makeup but everyone in his comments wants him to do a pat mcgrath look #tommy sometimes does duel streams with mick and plays whatever multiplayer video game they two of them are good at #everyone drops everything to watch a moldy stream #like if it means they have to end their own stream they’re doing it

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corruptimles · 7 months

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hey does anyone have any recommendations for lets play youtubers that play a lot of horror games cuz I've burned through almost everything of the ones I currently watch 😔

preferably looking for someone that doesn't over-edit or is heavy on swearing/screaming

#over-edit meaning like. constantly putting in their own sfx and music that it makes it hard to get into the game theyre playing #if it's a big name Ive probably watched through their vids already (esp since mark slowed down with his movie stuff)#manly plays so many games i havent made a dent on his channel playlist but he also. doesn't get scared #not a big fan of theory stuff either I just wanna see ppl get scared at games #me post #delete later maybe

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todayisafridaynight · 10 months

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YOU MAKE THAT POST AND DON'T SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON EVERYONE'S OPINION ON SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG???

I MEAN IT'S SUCH A NICHE FUCKING TOPIC LMAO I DIDN'T THINK ANYONE WOULD CARE

but anyway here's the Egregiously Simplified version of Everyone Is Forced To Play Ten Routes Of Shadow The Hedgehog And Has To Give Their Opinion Afterwards

#snap chats #i already hear someone going 'the fuck you mean mine is number one shadow the hedgehog defender' YOU WILL LISTEN TO ME #at first i do think he'd be like 'what the fuck' but then going through all of shadows routes. or at least ten to get the final story #and seeing the constant betrayal and inability to trust others he faced yet still ultimately persevering due to his promise to maria #i think bro would be moved.. just a little.. would he think shadow a bit headassed for that considering what the humans did to him #Of Course but also its evident that shadows clearly taking things into his own hands now- as righteous of a mission as it is #despite the persistent attempted influence by everyone around him. shadows a complicated TRAGEDY he'd be moved #mine's artsy like that..... gotta go before i get shot ive said insane things before but this one'll take the cake me thinks #im not explaining everyone else mine's just felt like the one i NEEDED to explain lest i look more insane than usual #06 daigo's purely a Shadow Angst enjoyer. he understands shadow and he's wallowing in the misery of his backstory #majima's weird to categorize cause he definitely can be like Lmao The Fuck and/or just play the game chaotically #and then the aspects of identity come in and on the outside he'll be like 'bro its not that deep' but on the inside its like #Damn He Just Like Me Fr. i think. idk i dont study majima leave me alone im not making ANOTHER One Chara Exclusive category #i said i wouldnt explain anyone else and here i am explaining shut UP im gonna go eat #im not looking at this anymore bye #FORCING myself to leave cause i really will just end up typing essays on bitches perceiving shadow LMAOO

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skeletalheartattack · 11 months

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Olimar using special technology to extract Louie's incredible cooking skills (one of his few positive traits)

the faint sounds of a tied up louie are heard as olimar commands one hundred pikmin to carry one large syringe closer and closer in hopes of sucking the only good left in him. the pikmin seem happy to do this.

#ask #anon #i wouldve liked to have drawn this in ms paint but. ogh...#id like to play the pikmin games one day. love those freaks.#my friend fadian continues to torture me with being mean about oatchi #hi fadian if youre reading this please go to hell!!! please!!! please please go to hell!!!!!!!!!#leave oatchi alone. okay ❓#i really like that funny dog #moss too. fucking beast.#my only personal experience with pikmin was a friend bringing it to a friends house and watching him play it for a bit.#then we switched over to luigis mansion and laughed at luigi shoving items he found up his ass. keys. gems. you know.#we were in middle school. it made sense.#the friend who brought over the games was constantly distraught though at us implying luigi was putting stuff up there #that or it was the other friends older brother.#it was on a big fucking box tv. oh how i miss you big fucking box tv.#i never owned one but god.#playing brawls story mode on that tv was something else to me #ive watched a bunch of different streams of pikmin games. but the ones i watched through fully never finished the games.#and with pikmin 3. theres not a lot of streamers i watch who have played through it.#ogh.#anyway thank you for your insight anon :) louie will be a soulless husk soon.

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storytellering · 9 months

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the moment I see someone unironically make a "deadweight" nero joke or seriously refer to him as "deadweight" i know i can't trust them

#its the like king of the unfunny dmc dudebro jokes #like I hate to be the 'UMMMM ACTUALLY' guy but tell me you were playing with your eyes closed without telling me #the POINT is that he was never a deadweight not even to Dante #he just took it to heart because he was so desperate for Dante to acknowledge him and to feel up to task and his own inferiority complex #but the POINT was that dante blurted out something he didn't mean in the heat of the moment just to get nero out of there and #as words you dont think about in the heat of the moment often do #it stuck and cut him deeply #do you ever hear anyone refer to him as a dead weight besides the one dante line?#no!!!#the word is said exactly four times in game and three of those are nero talking back at dante since the one time hurt that badly #anyway yada yada i know its a funny haha #but it always communicates such a lack of care and respect for the source material and nero as a character to me #you can make deprecating jokes about the characters you like!#hell i insult vergil all the time #(he deserves it)#but its one thing to make actually funny and accurate insult-jokes about a character out of fondness #and another to just blindly parrot back a line that meant something completely else in context clearly without understanding what it meant #lol sorry rant over this got a bit longwinded #but the type of fan to unironically do that just bothers me #lo and behold its always the gen nonship and anti people wonder why /s

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pinkhysteria · 7 months

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jag gotta have one of the most cutthroat backstabby runs in bb, and yet there's a non-zero percent chance he stands up from one of those chairs tonight and preaches about how he's played with integrity, honesty, and overcome so much bullying from everyone else. 😭

#bb25 #he remains my preferred winner out of the three but if he loses for that reason i will not care. <3 #he kept saying he'd 'deal with jury management when he Got There'#hopefully that means owning his actual game rather than playing in their face and lying out his ass.#that's probably the only chance he has of beating white boy if they're the f2.

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spicyicymeloncat · 10 months

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Tumblr pls be normal about morally complex characters. Stop going 0 or 100 on their morality. Stop ignoring the interesting and unique story telling being presented to you in favour of going “nono that’s my UwU sugar plum sweet baby boi baby, disregard the canon bc I actually only want wholesome vibes from my horror games”

#fnaf spoilers #fnaf ruin spoilers #yeah this is is about eggory #bc the way people are trying to make it out that Gregory is actually the nicest child ever and he can do no wrong because he’s a child #is so simplistic and boring man #from what I gathered this is a pushback against matpat who thinks Gregory is an evil robot #and like y’all are valid to hate matpat but don’t stoop to the man’s level and play into his poorly analysed videos that are just made to #get a reaction and get clicks #imo gregory could totally pull an asshole move and let his friends die if it was for the greater good and that doesn’t mean I hate him #Gregory has been shown to make sacrifices #and he could have an arguably good reason to do what he did #the mimic was dangerous and would’ve killed multiple if loose #for the record I don’t think he intended Cassie to die I think his mic cut out and the elevator fell on its own #i don’t think it was the mimic either btw bc narratively that just kills the momentum #I’m just tired of people uwuifying gregboy so much #and accusing the game of wrongly portraying him as evil bc it just seems like #it seems like mischaracterisation idk #I’m not saying Gregory is mean or murderous for no reason either #he’s nuanced and there’s reasons for why he’s like this #sorry if this isn’t tagged right

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smashwolfen · 25 days

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hello i am so in awe that you have collected all the pokémon games (i finished my collection of 3ds ones a bit ago but i considered a lot of the other ones out of reach) and i was wondering how long it took? i know especially the older remakes are insane to get so i’m super curious

(This got incredibly long i'm so sorry for the wall of text my guy)

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Hello there! :D

Believe me, I still can't believe it myself that I managed to pull it off considering who I had to get ahold of! Been happy dancing to myself ever since I got the last game~

God it feels like it was longer ago honestly, but I only really began trying to finish the Pokemon collection just a year ago! Had to check back in my DMs with my buddy, but the day I began to seriously search for the rest of the authentic generations was May 5th 2023, the day I discovered my copy of Platinum was a repoduction, ya watch ONE video regarding reals vs. fakes and it all went down from there when I looked over the ones I owned already, luckily Platinum was the only one who was fake ;w;

I had passively over the years been picking up games as I went, but from that day last year til recently I looked where I could for the games I was missing, to be fair I had about half the collection to begin with just from growing up and finding ones out and about, I only needed to find the pair of whatever I owned already, besides gen 5.... since I somehow never played gen 5 growing up. Funny enough I didn't have to look too far, every single game I found had all been local! Facebook marketplace saved me big time I just had to wait and compare prices til I was happy with what I was willing to pay for! I scrutinized every single copy I got my hands on and triple checked everything before I was satisfied XD

The 3DS titles were very easy to get thankfully, and the same goes for you too good on ya for getting your 3DS ones! Hardest for sure were gens 3-5, specifically ALL of gen 5 they are the WORST to get since no one wants to sell them and they're required to be able to move anyone forward to the 3DS and then to the Switch! I think It'd be easier to list who I owned and who I hunted for in the year of the search.

So I owned:

Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver, Crystal, Leafgreen, Emerald, Diamond, Pearl, X, Alpha Sapphire, Moon, UltraSun, Sword, Violet and Arceus (some I had gotten as gifts growing up and others I had gotten through yardsaling and thrifting by chance as I grew up, Emerald was 70 at a yardsale!)

The ones I got from the year of the hunt:

Ruby, Sapphire, FireRed, Platinum, Heartgold, SoulSilver, Black, White, Black 2, White 2, Y, Omega Ruby, Sun, UltraMoon, Shield, Lets Go Pikachu, Lets Go Eevee (I DID own Eevee before but traded it in before the hunt) Scarlet, Brilliant Diamond, and Shining Pearl.

Now knowing who I had to get, we all know it costs a pretty penny, so I essentially sold things myself to fund the hunt, like my amiibos I didn't really need or want, a handful of random collectable things I picked up and kept over the years (notably a masterchief helmet from the legendary collection I got for free like 10 years ago lol) and some odds and ends I didn't need anymore and to declutter the home! I think out of my own pocket I only paid maybe 40 bucks total so I paid for everyone that way! It was all mostly luck finding everyone and keeping an eye on marketplace, and some of them I had gotten from folks I knew! Black and Black 2 actually came from one of my managers at work who sold them to me for insanely cheap, and Sapphire I got for free as I mentioned in the games post XD

If you do try to go for the complete collection, I say have a gameplan for how to pay and build that piggybank of funds, go for what you can afford! So if you see a game without a case thats usually better, you dont NEED a case or have a game CIB really, a bunch of mine dont have a case or box and I'm alright with that! Look locally at second hand stores, vintage ones, marketplace or any other local yardsale or fleamarket type thing you may have in your area, and I say this with caution, but if you HAVE to, you can consider ebay, but I strongly suggest not to when it comes to the games. I had originally tried to get a Brilliant Diamond copy from there and well, dude never sent it at all and got my money (ebay fully refunded me but that still bites). And finally get well versed in learning how to authenticate to the best of your abilities, 3DS and switch I don't think can be faked but everything else can be! I used this as my guide to figure out who was real and fake in my search and it worked very very well! Twas my bible of knowledge

End of the day it didn't take as long as one would think, but luck played a HUGE roll in this endeavor, I was smart with my money, and I was very very VERY stubborn and wanted them all XD

If you go for the complete collection like I did then I wish you the best of luck my friend! And thank you very much for the ask! It kinda got away from me while typing but yeah thats the story and process of how I got all the main series titles!

#long post #I still own faker platinum btw hes got a silver marker dot on his back so I dont mix them up on accident XD #and my gen 1-3 games have all but 2 of their batteries replaced too so I can play properly on them for a while longer #the end goal rn is to get my butt in gear and finish my heartgold file and then save that on my modded 3ds #then do one massive migration of pokemon to bring forward to the switch and eventually have a complete living dex with my trainers names #this also means potentially having completed pokedexes in one game per generation but thats for a really rainy day XD #and yes i also still have not completed gen 5 at all I keep forgetting to play black XD #thank you again for the ask I love answering them to the best of my abilities! XD #pokemon #pokemon collector #pokemon collection #pokemon generations #answered asks #asks #smashwolfen #smish pokemon #secret end tag the most expensive game was White 2 CIB at 230 CAN with Sun and Ultramoon bundled free with it #cheapest was sapphire free from bud he got from a puddle ages ago XD #randomnebula

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spider-xan · 4 months

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Thinking again about how I really liked the moments Harry and Curt had with each other in the game - their interactions in the EMF scene above, the mission to try and save him at the abandoned zoo, etc. - but that I also wish that relationship had gotten more development onscreen, especially before everything goes wrong with the symbiote.

#xan's spidey meta #curt connors #harry osborn #they never interact in the comics #and they have so many interesting parallels in this game #especially when you remember the interview where they mention the lizard being curt's counterpart to the symbiote #even if they technically were referring to peter in that context #also the back and forth btw curt taking care of harry and harry trying to save him #and how that ends with curt being unable to save harry #and reluctantly having to accept that harry has to be killed to stop venom #and i'm sad we don't get his reaction to peter and miles stopping venom and saving harry #and i suspect he's not returning in the next game if harry has a new doctor in the ending #also just the interesting aspect of how norman plays into their relationship #and how curt has to take care of his son while being unable to care for his own #idk there are just so much interesting things to think about #even if their relationship wasn't as developed as it could have been #i didn't mean to write an entire essay in the tags #but here we are lol #insomniac spider man

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void-and-virtue · 2 years

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I’m a big fan of the whole concept that Andrew actually ends up grudgingly enjoying Exy at some point, entirely because he enjoys being contrary. Like. To Andrew, denying people who think they can one-up him their success is a basic need. Riling them up for his own amusement in the process, only to make the takedown that much more humiliating when even the anger is not enough to give them an edge against his immovable presence is Andrew’s idea of self-fulfillment. Exy makes it so he’s literally getting paid millions of dollars to do that.

Kevin would be so much more successful in his pursuit to get Andrew to actually play if he stopped trying to get him to like the sport itself, and instead started to subtly market it as a professional career in being a little shit. I like to think Neil eventually figures out how to intentionally garner Andrew’s interest and starts to capitalize on his instigative tendencies to the fullest to give him incentive. Andrew plays Exy like it’s psychological warfare when he puts his mind to it. They could probably get him to run precision drills at night practice by prompting him to imagine how mad it would make people if he managed to strategically bounce balls off of his opponents’ helmets mid-game as a way to pass the ball up to Neil so that he can score. Stuff like that is actually creative, and hard to do, so the challenge becomes interesting when the reward (grim satisfaction in his own skill, his opponent being mad at him but unable to do anything about it, Neil’s smile) is worth the shot. It’s not the game itself that interests Andrew. It’s the opportunity to thoroughly mess with people and be as much of an inconvenience as humanly possible that sometimes makes playing Exy satisfying for him.

On a more serious note, there’s also something to be said about how his personal history/trauma feeds into this. Saying ‘No’ and the ability to see through that his ‘No’ is final is a very integral part of who Andrew is as a person. It’s really tangled up with Exy for him because, as Neil accurately put it, he plays Exy like he plays life.

Andrew is someone whose choice has been taken away from him far too many times in his life. The ability to choose and deny what happens to him and those under his protection is the highest good he has. Playing as the last line of defense at his level of skill quite possibly has the potential to be downright therapeutic. There’s satisfaction to be found in every goal denied, in being the best at what he does and taking control of his part in the game, if he allowed this to mean that to him. And that could factor into enjoyment of the sport as well — a quiet, subdued kind rather than loud celebration, but silent satisfaction is just as valuable as the much louder, more obvious kind. Anybody who matters can recognize happiness and contentment in him without needing him to say anything anyway.

#it’s thinking about Andrew hours y’all #obviously it’s never Neil or Kevin level of devotion from him #Andrew isn’t exuberant #he doesn’t love Exy like they love Exy or most of his teammates do #but that doesn’t mean he can’t find his own satisfaction in playing #I’m tired of the idea that he never actually likes anything and Exy in particular #like all things Andrew it’s convoluted as all hell #because his relationship with stuff like joy and literally emotions and wants in general is extremely complicated #that said he is a little shit and he is an instigator and a protector at heart #and Exy is a prime opportunity to channel all of that #especially when there’s people he cares about playing together with him and he gets to watch them glow #sights like that make hitting balls with a stick actually worthwhile #all of this is entirely despite himself but at some point even Andrew has to admit that he isn’t actually fully impassive towards it #ball isn’t life but the power of antagonism and friendship sure as fuck is #aftg #all for the game #does this count as andrew meta?#or maybe Andrew vs Exy meta #aftg meta #andrew minyard #neil josten #kevin day

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pebbledrat · 1 year

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The longer I'm around the more convinced I become that Jill and Michael also had some kinda codependent-besties archetype thing going on?? they may or may not even have been aware of it, but like. they're kind of a matched set, you know? Frequently purchased together, do not separate them

#this is based more on vibe then evidence but like. boy oh boy is there evidence #you could look at how the Lovers archetype affected Raven and Lloyd when they got split up and then compare that to Michael spiraling #idk. obviously there are a lot of factors at play here but like. sort of chronologically-#they were trapped in the tower together and had to stay sane for each other. making up games together. trying not to crack.#she was his first friend. you know?#they show up to the dinner party together. they bring wine and scotch! (she taught him to drink)#(they used to laugh and drink and party together until suddenly they couldn't anymore)#jill takes the chance to admit to lloyd that she worries about michael. to which!!!! lloyd says!! at least he has you #jill and michael's well being has ALWAYS been interwoven #or like. or like. in act 6 in the final battle jill follows her own melody line bc she's ticked and this is personal #compared with michael who doesn't have a personal stake in this other than the playhouse crew being involved!#michael doesn't have his own melody. he sings to the love and a dream playhouse tune bc that's his motivation for fighting #UNTIL jill is in danger!! when Michael jumps in to save her he finally gets his own musical flavor in the song! then it's banjo boy time #idk. there was a lot of loss and multiple different traumas Michael went through after that. but suddenly he's alone again #at least he's not stuck in a swamp or a tower for years but. he's all the way back to square one. he's alone. he doesn't cope well with that #and while he misses all of them he really misses jill. at the worst of it he doesn't even want to reunite with lloyd and david #but like. he's in a real bad way. he's hit rock bottom and he carries so much guilt over not being able to help jill #to the point where even hearing that there's hope is crushing to him bc it means that there Was something he could've done #and he did nothing #he's devastated all over again not just bc he lost her. but bc he abandoned her. he failed her.#we don't have nearly as much about how jill is doing but we do have her song titled Michael about their early relationship #and the way they rely on each other #go listen to that and tell me the narrative wouldn't just eat that up and link their destinies and mental stability #they spent years in level five. you can't tell me they got away with all this unscathed #i definitely think losing son mi was a big part of why michael spiraled but this essay is about jill and michael specifically #hdhjdfhrjrdgtsg how long can post go (challenge mode)#pebble speaks #shaperaverse

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never thought i'd see people try to argue or analyse wriothesley's murder in regards to his personality. i think people are missing the point. the situation has nothing to do with him and has everything to do with an extremely traumatic environment that made a small boy think the only solution so save himself and the people he cared about was to take the life of his abusers. it's not supposed to be rational, it wasn't premeditated, it wasn't about getting away with it. if you read his description of the murder you can see how out of it he was. his goal was to protect himself and his siblings and that's what he did. that's why he admitted to the crime so easily and why he is keen to associate the fortress as a rebirth place. he was just young, lost and traumatised and that's about it when it comes to the extension of it all.

#people acting like they're disappointed because he's a 'manipulative' and cunning individual or because he's cold and that it doesn't match #the crime as if at that time he wasn't just a kid experiencing extreme distress and without a safe space to seek help #i also don't personally think he's manipulative at all. he isn't like ayato or yae miko. he has very strong values and he does everything #to abide to that. if that means ommiting information at some point to make the best out of a situation he will do so but he doesn't do #things for personal gain and as soon as he can be truthful he lays all the cards on the table #this reminds me of that ayaka situation where people tried to paint her as manipulative when all she did was ask the traveller to hear #people's stories so traveller could take their own conclusions about the situation in inazuma shsjsh #it's also the way wrio isn't even cold. he's serious and composed but goddamn if he didn't show how empathetic he is #also how lightweight his personality is during the archon quest...#at this point i'm just questioning myself if we're even playing the same game #wrio 'i believe in restorative justice rather than punishment' the slay #wrio 'there's a prophecy about a flood dooming the entire country so i'm taking matters into my own hands and building noah's ark to save #my people' the slay #wrio 'i have no reason to trust you but i will still offer you a cup of tea' the slay and people still try to pain him in an obscure light #he's not even that morally grey 😭 he's morally gray in the sense everyone is #wanting to stop people who hurt others isn't controversial or shouldn't be #also because we KNOW that's his last resource #his job is literally to give people a second chance the same way he took his except he actually wants to make life easier for others #than it was for him and people are so vocal about how grateful they are of him like???#he's such a good guy genuinely #and just because he's intelligent and usually composed doesn't mean he isn't emotional sensitive or even prone to being put in situations #where's he's forced to react a certain way because that's just human nature #he's literally just a silly guy with trauma and big responsabilities set him free from the shackles of mischaracterization please 😂#not that i'm better i'm a fool i may just be talking shit really #but seeing people act like the murder is somehow badly written or that he is dark and dangerous make me go ???#having the ability to do something doesn't define you as a person and i feel like judgement without context makes no sense #but maybe that's just me

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