#noncombat

[valfromonline]

Isewyn Hood

Paragon of the Hand and Saint of the Firmament

Born and raised at sea, the waters were where Isewyn thought she would run out her days. And it would have been true, if not for her unusual affinity for craft.

It is unclear precisely whence it stems, but her Echo manifests in the realm of artifice. In her hands is the art of creation laid bare.

Twice as efficient again as the most experienced shipboard carpenter, and capable of effecting conventionally impossible repairs with scraps, she retired to shore at a mere twenty summers to see where this talent could lead.

Another twenty years, a thousand weapons, and one restored Ishgard later, she's established herself as one of the finest multidisciplinary crafters in Eorzea - and a prized feather in the Lominsan Admiralty's cap.

#final fantasy xiv #pirate #disciple of the hand #maelstrom #limsa lominsa #oc #hyur highlander #character bio #roleplay #noncombat #balmung #ffxiv gpose #ffxiv wol #or i guess col

[sabrebash]

i'm super late idk but i wanted to do something hypercolor and i thought the song was cool and kesha was there

#there's no pattern i just do whatev man #ke$ha #helluva boss #beelzebub #vivziepop #pls be nice i am a simple gal and a noncombatant #art #fanart #artists on tumblr #clipstudio #illustration

[the-obnoxious-sibling]

I can't help but think about what if Buggy was raised in White Beard's ship rather than with the Rogers? In my heart of hearts I really do want to believe that Rogers cared and treasured Buggy like he did Shanks but afaik Shanks feels like a favorite; he's given the strawhat, and there's the Wano flashback of the Roger pirates about to face off the Whitebeards, and Shanks is wearing Roger's current captain hat on top of the straw hat while he's munching on some chocolate (😭) and idk, it makes me feel for the little clown

Whitebeard seems like he's a better father figure than Rogers considering his treasure is his family, so I wonder if he would have a better understanding of how Buggy feels, and how to raise a kid who doesn't take to battle as quickly as the other kids (let's say Marco bc he probably is the only other kid in the ship). Would Whitebeard celebrate and praise Buggy for his creative inventions and bombs? Would he encourage Buggy to be the flashiest boy of the Grand line, and to wear his red nose proud bc no matter what, he loves Buggy the way he is anyway? Idk I'm just thinking about what if Buggy wasn't broken and jaded :')

I'm still a Shuggy enjoyer so I want Shanks to be still a part of Buggy's childhood. What if Shanks is interested in Whitebeard's youngest bc he's also a kid too, and he's super eye catching. Shanks probably tries to fight Buggy but he gets overwhelmed by Buggy's bombs or whatever, or because Buggy's too good at dodging and/or running away (Whitebeard probably clues in that Buggy's not battle heavy, but he has immense potential when it comes to escapes and getting out of danger). Shanks just falls in love with this kid who he can't quite grasp and always looks forward to seeing again. Or maybe Shanks also gets adopted as a Whitebeard, but Whitebeard's parenting polishes Shanks and Buggy's strengths in a way where one doesn't feel inferior to the other and they're both happy kids. Lots of maybes...

Case and point, Buggy as a Whitebeard would maybe fix him 😭

buggy as a whitebeard pirate… i do think he ends up mentally healthier for it, but not necessarily because “roger’s a bad dad”—imo he’s not trying to be anyone’s dad, he’s buggy and shanks’ captain, it’s a different relationsh—*a long hook drags me offstage*

ahem. anyway.

potential upsides to being a whitebeard pirate:

if buggy’s in whitebeard’s crew, he is whitebeard’s family. there’s no room for doubt, he joined the crew this morning and has already been called ‘son’ three times.

lots of support, resources, etc. should he eat the chop-chop fruit. this is a crew with a lot of devil fruit experience, they know how to deal with the limitations that arise. if buggy mopes and complains about not being able to search for treasure underwater, i bet somebody comes up with a diving suit or a little submersible boat he can use; if he wants to swim, they find him a fresh water pool; etc.

there’s not just two kids around—he’ll get less focused attention, yeah, but the same is true for everyone. cap’n dad might play favorites, but i think that not being the favorite hurts more when there’s only two options. when there’s five, ten, dozens of other kids fighting for his attention… well, buggy might be bitter about not being the favorite, but he surely knew the odds weren’t in his favor. also, not being codependently reliant on one single peer/friend can do wonders for your mental health.

no childhood trauma over the crew breaking up and the captain dying!

potential downsides to being a whitebeard pirate:

he never gets to leave the nest. whitebeard pirates who want leadership roles can become division commanders; if they want an independent leadership role, i guess they can become captains of whitebeard subordinate crews? but it seems to me that they only leave if they die, retire, or turn traitor. i think buggy would find that stifling. whitebeard: the world’s most powerful helicopter parent?

there’s not just two kids around—if focused attention turns out to be something buggy really needs, that’s a shame, because he’s not gonna get it.

this is not a crew that cares about finding treasure or going on grand adventures. i don’t think buggy is gonna be too happy about whitebeard’s “the real treasure was the family we found along the way” ethos. though maybe he just ignores this, the way ace ignored whitebeard’s lack of interest in the pirate king title.

adulthood trauma over the captain dying and the crew falling apart/being destroyed by a traitor!

#asked and answered #one piece #buggy #whitebeard #i know there’s a number of noncombatants in wb’s crew but i don’t actually think buggy would want to be one of them… #i know we’re used to seeing him run from fights but as a kid buggy was plenty bloodthirsty! #if he didn’t lose the security blanket of having his big strong captain to back his play i think he’d happily keep throwing daggers around #as for shuggy… sorry but i need them to have their very specific shared history for the ship to appeal to me. i’m a buzzkill that way. #kids on rival ships with a rivalry-crush situation is fun but it’s not the same. (that’s shanks/marco to me tbh. unrequited tho 🥲) #even growing up together w/wb isn’t the same bc there’s other kids around in that situation! it’s not as claustrophic. not as codependent. #(also i don’t think shanks flourishes in quite the same way w/wb. he’s roger’s special little boy! the parallels are there for a reason!)

[tabieeee]

medcam doodles and a headcanon I have about cameramen heads

it's the same head just without the protective casing + flashlight and an added lens for extra nerdiness

#skibidi toilet #cameraman #medic cameraman #myart #i just think they're neat #their necks are funny #maybe the casing is like armor to them #and it gets in the way of noncombat lads #so the medics and engis take it off #idk about scientists tho we have seen them fight before #so mb they keep it on for occasional combat situations

[baiobey]

games about progressive fantasy afflictions are always going to own my disabled ass sooooo bad. especially when you can do very extreme things for the sake of improving your condition. especially when you can still be a hero. we need to make more of these

#rare text post #yes morrowind yes bg3 yes dai. yes viktor my friend viktor from arcane. #but gmes like pyre too where you can play as a noncombatant due to physical limitations. ohhhhhhhhhhhhh #this is to say... give me more recommendations like this if you know them :)

[lyledebeast]

From the same article I posted earlier:

"In March 1782, after Indian attacks upon American settlements on the western frontier, militiamen under the command of Col. David Williamson attacked the Moravian Christian Mission at Gnadenhutten. Peaceful Delaware Indians, who had converted to Christianity, were rounded up, and ninety-six Delaware Indians, men, women, and children, were bludgeoned to death.[18] This shattered the Delaware-American alliance in the Ohio Country."

Every historian commenting on The Patriot's church burning scene: "This is more like the Nazis in World War II!"

No no no no no. This is "more like" occurrences much closer in time and distance than that.

#american revolution #native american history #anti-native violence #the patriot #historical patriots did way too much tavington-type shit to native peoples #for ya'll to pretend atrocities against noncombatants hadn't been invented yet

[doxytoy]

>I log on

>I find a cool nsft blog

>I scroll

>They shared a post celebrating the massacre of civilians/defending terrorists

>I block them

Rinse and repeat.

#WHYYY GOD WHY #EVEN HERE IT’S PREVALENT #Like no I’m sorry I don’t care if you have problems with a country you don’t get to celebrate the murder of noncombatants #It’s even funnier (more infuriating) when they made a big stink about antisemitic tropes in fiction #Like buddy the call is coming from inside the house #I don’t like to get political on This blog but this has happened like 3 times now #Like please for the love of all things big and small understand that war crimes are always bad #Vent #My Post #OK to reblog but do not clown on this post

[doolallymagpie]

imperium fans stop being fucking cringe re: the t'au challenge (impossible)

#'everything positive about them is propaganda' then the same is true of the imperium #an ethereal could have you killed without warning? so could a commissar or inquisitor. #and you're a lot more likely to run into the latter as an imperial citizen than the former as a t'au one. #hell a rogue trader or even a regular noble could have you killed and face no consequences for it. or just some guardsman. #and you'd probably spend your whole short sad life never even seeing a space marine in person. #whereas a noncombat gue'vesa would live at least a decade longer and at least get to see a few battlesuits in parades or something. #and if you die in an industrial accident on a t'au world you'll probably get mourned by more than immediate family. #(frankly whether even they'd mourn you on an imperial world is questionable. 'eh we've got ten other kids.') #warhammer 40000 #t'au #tau empire

[lord-squiggletits]

Something else that makes me sympathetic to Pharma's situation is like. Idk if there's an actual term for this or if someone smarter and more academic wrote it about some real life context that actually matters.

But, so we've already established among Pharma stans that the circumstances at Delphi were blackmail/torture with no real way out that wouldn't involve Pharma being responsible for people getting killed (either killing patients for the deal or having everyone die bc he failed his end of the deal).

And I feel like while "he's still in the wrong because he killed people" is part of it, another sort of implicit part is the idea that Pharma should've been willing to take more personal risk, maybe even risk dying? I mean, Ratchet does ask "why didn't you just detonate it near the DJD" (to which Pharma responds that he did try to get Sonic and Boom to do it, but they refused) so like

Idk I feel like we do have this social notion of martyrs as a very romantic ideal, people you can praise for being so brave and strong and righteous that they ended their own lives for their cause, while you can also coo about how sad and tragic it is that dying is what it took for them to do the right thing. But at the same time I feel like in reality, having an expectation that people become martyrs is kind of a toxic social norm bc like. It's very easy to demand that others sacrifice their lives for some Ultimate Moral Good when you yourself aren't experiencing the same hardships as they are. And ultimately it is kind of fucked up to tell someone "the moral thing you should've done was risk your life/kill yourself" because asking someone to pay their life to do the right thing is no small request. And sure, the typical response would be to call them a "coward" for caring more about saving their own skin instead of doing the right thing... but again, death is a really scary thing and self-preservation is a really strong instinct, so it kind of feels like having this binary view of "you're either a Brave Hero who sacrifices your life for everyone else or a Dirty Coward who's too scared of dying to do what's right" is kind of fucked up?

I guess the best way to describe it is that if someone willingly gives up their life as a sacrifice to others, it can be a noble thing because it's a choice they made willingly, but if it becomes a Moral Standard that in order to be a Good Person you have to be unafraid of throwing your life away and if you aren't willing to die you're a Cowardly Bad Person, that's when it becomes toxic.

Idk, I guess how this ties back to Pharma is that he was never in a position where he expected to make these kinds of moral decisions/ultimatums. He's a doctor who doesn't even get into combat, his job is to heal and not to kill, he's behind the front lines in a hospital that's supposed to be a safe, neutral place for him to heal people. So in the face of suddenly having a "murder people on behalf of me, or I murder everyone you swore to protect" ultimatum thrust upon him, I understand why Pharma wasn't """"""""""brave enough"""""""""" to "do the right thing" (whatever that would've been in the case of Delphi). You could argue that maybe a frontliner soldier accepted the burden of possibly dying for their cause and they've become used to it as someone who lives that reality every single day, but I feel like for Pharma, who's a doctor and a protected non-combatant (from what we can tell), that sort of risking of his life/living with the fact his life could be snuffed out any day isn't something he would've been prepared for at all.

And for me personally, from an outsider's perspective, it strikes me as kind of unethical to go "oh well he should've just detonated the bomb himself even if it killed him" bc again, there's a difference between witnessing a moral conundrum as a bystander versus being the person living with it and being under time pressure where it's do-or-die. Just as part of my personal standards, I feel like death is such a huge consequence/burden of someone's actions (literally you are no longer alive, any potential you had left is cut short, you cease to exist on this plane) that it feels rather callous to go "Well you should've just been willing to die for your beliefs if you really cared that much!!!"

#squiggposting #pharma apologism #this is only like tangentially related to pharma honestly #not to compare blorbos to real life but like. it reminds me of this phenomenon where privileged ppl in privileged countries #will tell ppl living in zones of war and strife 'oh well if you don't like your gov so bad just revolt against them' #like oh yes tell me how easy it is to stand up against the threats of torture and death #surely the only reason people would want to avoid that is bc they're cowards or don't want to stand up for their beliefs #contrary to what nationalism would have ppl believe. 'wanting to not die' isn't a moral position #everyone wants to live. no one wants to die. it doesnt make you a bad person to be scared of dying #esp (going back to blorbo's) in a situation like pharma's where every option he had ended in death #the death of his patients or the death of everyone at delphi or his death personally #on top of the fact he's a noncombatant who hasn't been desensitized to violence/risking his own life #and is dealing with a trained group of killers that he can't possibly match on physical terms #so yeah actually i don't blame pharma for what he did #he made shitty decisions in a shitty situation but was ultimately a victim #also if you want to view the blackmail deal from a framework of abuse #it is also fucked up to basically tell someone they werent brave enough to just kill their accuser or ask for help #isnt the entire point of such situations that the victim is both powerless to stop the abuse #and too afraid of asking for help/thinks they cant ask for help. and thats why they dont just get out #idk sometimes the best moral judgement is to forgive someone or view it as 'complicated' #sometimes regardless of the good or evilness of their actions the best choice is to not make a judgement #or to err in favor of a forgiving/'i cant speak for your experience' judgement #anyways the fact is that the rosy fantasy of being a brave noble soldier who sacrifices for the cause #rarely stands up to reality where youre just terrified and powerless and dont know what to do #and suddenly the rosy glow of The Noble Cause isnt comforting in the prospect of horrible torturous death

[doomspiral]

see, heres the thing. gilbert feliks and tolys all like turning people into little cubes of meat. this is a negative character trait that you can unlock if you're not a coward. go forth and let them be someone's misfortune so i can read it.

#i think feliks seems like a noncombatant up until he starts fucking screaming #either on horseback or in a gunner plane

[agnesandhilda]

you have to admit it would have been a gag if midoriya hadn't been snapped out his trance by Literal Ghosts and shinsou won by just making him walk himself out of bounds

#bolo liveblogs #it would've been really funny from an audience perspective #general course student with noncombat quirk wins tournament match by telling opponent to lose for him #and I BET you he could eventually get todoroki to fall for it after by prodding at his obvious daddy issues enough #the concept of weaponized assholery fascinates me

[project-catgirlpillar]

Tariq fleetfoot died as he lived: Killing a Lot of innocent people in Order to Take Out an enemy

#rip grandpa warcrimes #gone but not forgotten #at least this time most of the people he killed weren't noncombatants #idk man #a practical guide to evil #apgte

[oswednesday]

its insane how much outlast changed like, horror games forever, like would there even be hiding in locker mechanics without it and that section is mostly cinematography but its impact,,,

#were there sooner ones? #it feels like it like introduced a lot of stealth noncombat horror mechanics during a era of like weapons combat game horrors or like purel #qtes

[angrybell]

In Southern Lebanon, Hezbollah, like Hamas does in Gaza, locates its people and weapons in civilian areas. This allows Hezbollah, like Hamas, to claim that anyone killed in an Israel retaliation strike, following the firing of a rocket, missile, or mortar from Southern Lebanon into Israel, is a civilian casualty.

But you have to acknowledge Hezbollah’s commitment to honoring its fallen dead. So every time one of their terrorists is killed in action, they put out a death notice in Arabic. Most Western media ignores this, why undercut the story of Israel killing civilians with facts? Anyways, researchers mine these announcements, some coming out the same day, some coming out weeks later, in order to get a better idea of who Israel is actually killing as opposed to who they are trying to kill.

The most recent findings for casualties located in South Lebanon and Syria (areas where Hezbollah and Iran operate):

Including today, 155 members of Lebanese armed groups have been killed, along with 23 civilians. That's 87% militants. This is despite that in Lebanon, as with Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah hides rockets in civilian areas, using people as human shields.

In Syria, 80 militants have been killed, along with 5 civilians. That's 94% militants.

Now, does this mean the IDF in Gaza is doing this well? No. It would be hard. The IDF is engaged in street fighting where air support and artillery are being brought to bear in support of IDF units under fire. It’s not like pre-planned missions which can be called off because IDF units are not in close contact and in need of the fire support. But on the other hand, it indicates that probably the (illegal) combatant to non-combatant ratio is better than what pro-Hamas supporters are always claiming.

#israel #hamas war 2023 #hamas #Hezbollah #combatant v noncombatant casualties

[the-thirteenth-prime]

My 'Signalis' experience in a nutshell.

Rose-engine probably: Here are these two lesbians who are totally tragic and deep. You are supposed to love them and care about them because they're sad and they danced together on a ship.

Me, wrapping Adler in a safety blanket and picking him up in my arms to carry him away from the eldritch hellscape: I'm sorry, I can't hear you over how much I love my new son and how he deserves better.

#signalis #adler #look i have many conflicted feelings about signalis and its writing #but the one thing that's concrete is how much i love adler #he is just such a good characters and he's honestly the only one i found myself caring about #he's just this noncombatant who's fascinated by new shiny objects and loves figuring things out #the doofus was entranced by a ticking box and used all his money to buy a fountain pen #then realized he couldn't afford a diary #how could i not love him? #he's all alone and scared and misses his commander #who he's programmed to love but loves deeply all the same #he's trying so hard to keep elster and isa from ripping apart the world #yeah he tried to kill isa and stabbed elster in the eye and pushed her down the elevator shaft #but listen if i were in alder's situation i would do the exact damn same #he's trying to save his commander and the station from being completely ripped apart by the repeated cycles #but ariane and elster fell in love when they were literally the only two people on one ship and danced together #so i'm supposed to care about them more or something

[weepylucifer]

interesting stuff here. but mostly i keep thinking of my future scenario where he actually starts to use one of these, and how quickly his attitude would shift from "sacred relic" to "oof, Grandpa Iosef was right, this thing is a crapshoot"

#what interests me is that steban not ulixes asks to hold it #suits my purposes #uli of one year later (noncombatant) (very much against his will): do you ever... ✨️bayonet people✨️ with this 🤩 #steban: uli i am so very tired #posts by me #le retour being rough on the boys #idk it's funny to me how much the belle magrave gets hyped up as a Symbol throughout the game #and then dros is just like yeah it was not very good