#ok god only one name per character

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✨ The In Stars and Time Spoiler Q&A ✨

it's time. MASSIVE IN STARS AND TIME SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT. IT'S GONNA BE SO LONG. LET'S GO

I hope you are aware of The Secret Final Boss because I'm also gonna spoil the crab out of that. If you haven't,

1. Did you know the events for interacting with your souvenirs are randomized for some of them, and also change depending on how far you are in the game.

2. Did you know there's a way to show souvenirs to a certain character.

3. Did you know you can go back to Dormont during the Epilogue.

Figure that out, and come back here! Or watch a let's play online. You can also do that.

I will also try to adopt a ~mysterious cool voice with no exclamation points~ for Effect. Come with me on this journey.

Now. Questions time!

✨ Will you ever make a sequel to ISAT, or make a game in the same universe?

Nah. This was always intended to be The Story. This is your turn to imagine things now.

✨ But so what happened to the Country? What was its name? What about the wishes? What about the colors? What did Siffrin say as an openphrase to open the door to the King's room? What about--

I will not answer those. It's your turn.

✨ BUT THE COUNTRY AND THE COLORS AND THE WISHES

Ok fine. Here are some facts that I alluded to in-game, that I am confirming now.

-The Country disappearing and the events that made colors go away are not related.

-The colors disappeared a loooong time ago, which is why knowing they even existed is a relatively new find.

-A wish made everyone forget the Country.

I will ALSO say that ISAT's map operates on Final Fantasy/General Fantasy rules (i.e. in-universe locations are based off of real ones when it comes to culture, but are not one to one parallels, especially for geography), so no, the Country isn't based on the UK oh my god please do not say that to me again or im deleting ISAT out of your computers and putting legos at the foot of your bed. It's based on another place. You can figure it out, I believe in you.

✨ But why won't you give more info on what happened :(

Can you imagine if I did answer. Wouldn't that be a bummer, whatever my answer was. Sometimes things need to stay a mystery. And also, I don't want to answer <3

✨ Does the world Loop came from still exist after they left? Or is this a get mystery'd situation?

There is only One Timeline and it's the timeline that goes from the prologue to ISAT. Every timeline that gets rewound does not exist anymore, and that includes the prologue's timeline.

✨ What's the deal with Siffrin's dream at the start?

It's Siffrin's dream, but that doesn't mean our Siffrin is the main star.

✨ Is [specific missable game moment] canon?

Every moment that you personally experience in the game is canon.

✨ Is there a reason Siffrin remembers their name but the King doesn't?

What makes you think Siffrin does?

✨ At the very very end of the game, if you look out the window behind the Head Housemaiden, Sif mentions seeing an island in the distance. Is that his country?

It is. It's always been there, for the whole game. You can see it in the distance, too.

✨ Who was the King, before?

He was just a guy!

✨ With the King left remembering in the end, does that in any way change the redaction effect for other people in the world going forward?

That's a fun idea. Maybe!

✨ One thing that never really clicked for me is: Is the sweet smell Time Craft or Wish Craft? Or is the sweet smell TIme Craft and specifically the burnt sugar smell is Wish Craft? Other way around? Does this question even matter since without Wish Craft you can't attain Time Craft in the first place? (To me, yes.)

Wish Craft smells sweet. Time Craft doesn't have a smell per se, but it does do something.

✨ Does Mirabelle retain her immunity to being frozen in time after the events of the game or does it go away after the Head Housemaiden is saved? Or does it persist for a while and eventually fade away?

I imagine the immunity slowly faded away. But no one's left to do Time Craft, so it's a moot point anyway.

✨ How was Odile able to stop Siffrin from looping back during the fight against Siffrin?

In the Discord channel I stated that it's because "she's just that cool", but really, she does have access to some skills that heighten the efficacity of Rock/Paper/Scissors attacks, so it's not too much of a stretch to imagine she could lower the efficacity of Time Craft as well. In this last loop, while listening to Loop and observing, she could figure out Siffrin was looping way earlier than she could in even the Sus Quest, so she made plans. She is Very Smart <3

✨ Will you ever share everyone's full names?

That's artbook content <3

✨ In the ending, what happened to Siffrin's hat?

Flew away. It's gone now.

✨ Looking back at the original comics, and seeing how comic!sif has both eyes at the start of their loops, but in ending sequences is shown with his eye patch...did you ever consider making that concept of sif losing their eye a part of the main loop in either of your games? and if so, was there any reason why you decided against it?

Early on, I did think about making that whole event an event that happens during the loops, but quickly let that go since 1. it would be a pain to write and code (two different sets of Siffrin portraits!) and 2. if it happened, the player might want to look for a way to NOT make that happen and so 3. it would be a pain to write and code

✨ How was Siffrin's homelife before?

Pretty good!

✨ How old were Nille and Bonnie when they ran away? How old was Sif when their home got zapped?

Both were teens.

✨ How old IS everyone?

Siffrin is mid-late 20s. Mirabelle and Isabeau are early-mid 20s, with Isabeau being slightly older. Bonnie is a preteen. Odile is Too Old For This. Petronille, Bonnie's sister, is late teens-early 20s. You can ignore whatever I said in the prologue's artbook, whoever wrote this was Wrong!!!!!!!!!!

✨ Regarding the book that talks about someone who crafted a copy of themself using wish craft: is that meant to imply someone we know is the author (and/or the copy), or is it not directly related to any of em? or is it a "who knows ;)" situation where we can just speculate and theorize either way?

Please check the book again during Act 5! This applies to most items/map events by the way, like the pendant. You can check those during Act 5 and 6 for some fun new dialogue!

✨ Why are Siffrin's clothes so warm looking?

The Country got cold at night.

✨ What's up with Siffrin's pins?

They're made out of a special material. And also, they make Siffrin look cool <3

✨ I want to know the story behind Loop’s different eye shades!

They're blind in one eye. Also, fun foreshadowing <3

✨ What determines whether someone is paper/rock/scissors craft? Is it assigned naturally at birth or something else (and how do you find out)? Does it make you more inclined to use that specific craft or is anyone generally free to use whatever craft they want?

Astrology rules, It Just Is A Thing. Being Rock Type means it is way easier for you to do Rock Craft, but that doesn't mean you can't learn other types of craft, although it's way harder. Doing Craft of your type is instinct, doing Craft of another type would take some time and resarch.

✨What crimes has Odile committed before. I need to know.

Odile just smiles.

✨ Why did the King specifically target the House of Dormont?

I had a reason in mind, but adding it to the game would've added a layer of Explanation that really didn't need to be there. It's just a nice House.

✨ Who was Odile's hatecrush...

Dunno. It's your turn.

✨ What is loop's body situation. like is the surface of their "skin" solid? they did poke siffrin that one time, and we know they aren't cold, but...

I have some idea. But it's your turn!

✨ Would Sif still have looped if they hadn't made the wish he made in the beginning? As in, would Vaugarde's combined wish have made him loop until managing to beat the King?

No. But without time powers, you can imagine what would've happened next.

✨ During the Loop Hangout, how did the rest of the team make it all the way to The King? What about during Act 5?

During the Loop Hangout: with difficulty. During Act 5: Loop was there to guide them.

✨ Is Loop: 1. Actually comfortable with both he and they, but only gave the one pronoun to emphasize the distance? 2. Only using they/them because a large life event led to a shift in identity/ how they'd like to be perceived? or 3. time lops stole he from they they :(

Mostly that first one. But all three of those reasons have a bit of truth to them.

✨ Who cooked crab in the House of Change???

This is a very funny question! I've never thought about it. It's your turn.

✨ What are the Orbs that open the gate? Did the King create the Gate or was it there before?

(did not think about the orbs or the gate beyond "plot that proves there was a journey before") Stop Asking Questions,,,, It's your turn,,,,,,

✨ Bonnie's dialogue is *extremely* accurate to how overexcited kids talk, which is really rare to see. Was that something that took a lot of effort to achieve, or did it come naturally to you?

Thank you <3 I'm just that good. Really, Bonnie is an adult with no filter, and less general knowledge. I'm very glad I managed to write Bonnie well, especially since. I haven't talked to a kid. Since I was one myself

✨ The Spoilery Concept Art. Blease

oh yeah. here have it all. this is what I gave Mimi to do the animated trailer!

✨ So. What's everyone's favorite shade.

FINALLY the question. Plus I can say shade names now. White = darkless, Black = lightless. Light and Dark is like light grey/ dark grey. Oh my god I'm checking my notes and I wrote a small event I never used about hair dye colors like "midnight dark", "tomato grey", "snow light" past me that's so fucking funny

Anyway, Siffrin loves darkless, Mirabelle is more of a light shade lover, Isabeau loves that lightless (BECAUSE ITS FASHIONABLE OK), Odile likes darker shades, and Bonnie also loves that lightless (BECAUSE ITS AS DARK AS MY SOUL OK)

✨ Are there any bugs you found during developments that you've made into features?

Two! The first one was the ability to ask Loop to just silently hang out during Act 4. I messed up the code and the game softlocked there, with Siffrin and Loop sitting there silently. I thought it was very sweet. They deserve a little quiet time.

The second was in Act 5 - the House map had a lot of issues with the Act 5 map bringing you back to the normal House map. So one of the testers got brought to the normal House map and didn't notice, and interacted with the Mirror on Floor 3, and it gave them the normal interaction with everyone seeing the mirror and taking a picture, and when they went to look at the picture in their inventory, it gave them the actual Act 5 picture. A little bit after they realized the game bugged out, and told me about it, and begged me to keep that in because they were very unsettled by it. So here it is! Beforehand, it was just Siffrin silently taking a picture, so I'm glad I changed it.

✨ Did you ever have emotional difficulty writing the more sensitive parts of the script, like Siffrin’s intrusive/negative thoughts, for one reason or another? Moreover, did you worry the script may be darker than your initial vision for it anticipated?

Not really. The Mirabelle and Odile hangout scenes were the hardest scenes by far because I really wanted to get them right, but everything else was about the same amount of difficulty. And actually, I wanted to go a little bit darker for the script, but I was worried it was going to be too dark... When it comes to the dagger event, I had a whole tangent about Siffrin thinking about the best way to strike, so to speak, but I deleted it because it was getting A Little Too Detailed. T rating come back to me

✨ For the questions you WON'T answer, did you have your own answers while making the game? Or were they left blank?

Some of them I do, some of them I don't!

✨ I loved this game and I want to replay it but I don't want Siffrin to go through everything again!

Here's a little fun fact I decided: if you hit the credits, you helped a Siffrin escape. If you start a new game, you are creating a new Siffrin that you can emotionally tortu-IIIIIIII MEAN, a new Siffrin that you can help. Do not worry about your Siffrins they are fine

✨ A lot of those answers ended up being "It's your turn", huh.

Yea <3 The answers to some of those questions ARE there if you look. Some just aren't. But you can imagine whatever you want. It's your turn! I finished the game! I'm done working! It's your turn!!!

✨ I loved ISAT and it made me feel so many feelings!

Thank you so much. I'm sorry if you sent a message or ask and I didn't answer it. I read every single one and cherish it! Thank you for playing and thank you for writing me a message!!!!! When I get a little down I look at all of those and I feel better. Thank you. I'm sorry I can't answer them all.

✨ What will you work on next?

I have a project I'm currently in the preproduction stages of. I don't want to talk about it until I feel like I have some stuff to show. Plus I still have to make the ISAT artbook and some other stuff, so it won't be for a while. Nonetheless, I hope you will enjoy it!!!

#in stars and time #in stars and time spoilers

[2af-afterdark]

Ok. I wrote a 2hole thing in here before with each of the angels specifically and my thoughts but it got deleted so I'll just ask for a request

DomGod!Mc spanking Gabriel?

NooOOoOooooOo. I would have loved to read that. Curse you Tumblr! Let the Anons speak!

But... Gabriel spanking... there are so many ways to go with that. A lot of the God!MC au was made before we really had a good idea of what the characters were like, so sometimes I adjust things to fit more with what I see in game. I like my version of Gabriel though, so I'm gonna made the two together here and see how it works when he's completely and utterly selfish about getting MC's attention but also acknowledges that MC is their own person.

Heaven is boring. The entire place was made to revolve around God, so little was added that would distract from being able to revere them. MC is the new God and they can see why the old one left. It's stifling to be the center of Heaven. It's oppressive to be loved by angels that revolve their entire existence around them. They aren't even sure if "love" is the right word. It's more like the angels of Heaven use MC to feel better about themselves and their place in the universe.

And Gabriel? Gabriel is the worst of them all in some ways. Okay, they all suck, but Gabriel is a special kind of suck. Gabriel is the only one that calls them but name, but there is a subtly mocking tone when he says it. Not mocking them, per se, but mocking the idea that they think they can still be only MC. At the same time, he sounds euphoric when he says their name, because he's the only one that uses it in all of Heaven. It's something of theirs that's only his and he will abuse the privilege.

Their name is sickeningly sweet as it drips like honey from his lips. It echoes in their head, beating against their skull and driving them mad. He says it so calmly, like a lover whispering in the night. He uses it so casually and with such reverence...

It makes MC feel sick.

They've asked many, many times for him to stop. They've told him that he's not allowed to use the same name as their friends. He isn't allowed to address them like that. They aren't friends!

But he keeps doing it...

Do you know the phrase "spare the rod, spoil the child"? MC is starring to understand what it means. If MC is supposed to be God now, doesn't that mean that punishing disobedience is their job? Perhaps Gabriel can be the first one they test their new duties on.

He's almost too eager to lay across their lap when they tell him to. If MC didn't know better, they would think he was smiling.

When they bring their hand down against his backside, he barely makes a sound. They do it again to the same response. They scowl as they pull down his pants and expose his bare buttom. Then they smile as he finally yelps when they hit him.

They do it again and again and again until they lose track of how many times it's been and Gabriel's ass is cherry red. The entire time, he hasn't said anything, but the sound of his cries are ingrained in MC's memory. Between each one, it sounded almost like he was praying. Not the kind for forgiveness, but the kind given in thanks.

MC feels vile afterward. Not because it was wrong, but because they enjoyed doing it. They are sick to their stomach that they allowed Gabriel to get enough of a rise out of them to do that. And they are disgusted that they want to hear him cry more. Maybe spank him until he can't sit or walk properly...

Gabriel, for his part, does not seem upset. If anything, he appears to be amused as he calls MC's name yet again just to see the shivk in their eyes turn to anger once more.

#❖ nonie #love letters ❤️ #talkin' whb #god mc au #whb gabriel #whb mc

[booktomoviebrawl]

We are not judging how bad the movie is, we are judging which adapted the book the worst. There are good movies that are bad adaptions.

Propaganda below the cut (spoilers may apply)

World War Z:

The only thing from the book in this film is a two minute scene with a guy with the same name as a character from the book who gives basic exposition and only vaguely alludes to the stuff he did in the book. It’s just a bland Brad Pitt action movie that wanted to trick fans of an interesting book into seeing it. I wanted to go see Pacific Rim but my cousin dragged me to this shit instead. And yes I am still mad about it.

It shares almost nothing with the book except the title, the zombies, and a couple of locations

It took a genuinely interesting, anthology-like book that featured incredible scenes (of surviving the zombie apocalypse), and used its name to create a generic snoozefest action movie with Brad Pitt because he wanted to be the main character of a story with no main character. There were like 20+ zombie scenes in the book that I still remember to this day and IT USED NONE OF THEM. Battle of Yorktown? The blind Japanese guy and his shovel? The castle? The zombies crawling on the ocean floor???! NONE OF THEM IN THE MOVIE!!!!!! When will this get rebooted into an anthology TV series we deserve???? WHEN?

The School for Good and Evil:

oh my fucking god. okay. this movie absolutely should have been a TV show. it cuts out so much of the book and is still two and a half hours long. it would have worked much better as a tv show with six hour and a half episodes per season. they also did some…things to both of the main characters’ personalities and motivations that change the story. for the most part the movie is ok, but it just Should Not have been a movie. as it is, its incredibly campy and all of the actors are fucking incredibly. speaking of the cast, it is Stacked. sofia wylie, charlize theron, kerry washington, kit young, michelle yeoh… iconic. they slayed fr. the main issue is that it just Doesnt Work as a movie and i guess i see why it was one but like. shoulda been a tv show.

It victimizes the villainous actions of one of the main characters and makes the other main character pretty much useless since there is no conflict between the two as a result of the victimizing.

Listen it was a fun movie but uhhh. Gavaldon's been dealing with regular-as-rain kidnappings for a couple hundred years. Lady Lesso wasn't a Reader, and DEFINITELY not the last one kidnapped. WHERE IS AUGUST SADER. This is literally not the same story.

#tournament poll #world war z #the school for good and evil

[sapphire-weapon]

Clive, hush. Not only is it appropriate to give you the title of Mythos, but it’s one that you should’ve reclaimed and taken for yourself. In fact, I don’t know why Ultima even gave you that title. It’s kind of like naming a kid “Roger Stabbington” and then being surprised when he says “ok” and stabs people.

FFXVI had a lot of storytelling problems, but one of the issues that stands out the most is the refusal to explain the whole Mythos/Logos thing. There’s ATL entries about them, sure, but they’re kind of the most barebones, reductive explanations as to why those particular words/titles were chosen for Clive.

It’s time for me to put my “I was raised in an obnoxiously Greek family” hat back on once again and -- just as I did with the Hades II trailer -- break down all of the dumb ancient Greek nonsense being thrown at us in a video game.

“Mythos” isn’t actually a word that’s meant to be used as a title. The word “mythos” in and of itself refers to one of two things, depending on how it’s being used:

1. the compilation of folklore around a particular subject. For example, there’s the very famous myth of Hades and Persephone’s marriage, but there’s a whole mythos around the explanation of why seasons exist, and Demeter’s mourning of the loss of her daughter is only part of that mythos.

2. the plot of an ancient Greek tragedy -- just in general. The mythos of the story should have some sort of reversal (either the story starts off with the protagonist in a good place and ends with them in a bad one, or vice versa), and the intention should be to evoke fear or pity from the audience. Aristotle believed that the most tragic of stories were those involving violence between friends and/or family (and who does that sound like?) -- and, the worse the tragedy, the stronger the mythos.

So, to use the word “mythos” as a title implies that the person holding this title carries with them the legends and stories born from the hearts of mankind -- the “reason” behind mankind’s existence -- and then, through great tragedy, will become a legend in and of themselves.

Yeah, that kinda sounds like Clive, doesn’t it?

Ultima’s a fuckin idiot moron for naming him that and then expecting him to become anything else.

Another fun fact about the word “mythos” and how it relates to Greek tragedies, though:

Greek tragedies were historically performed in worship of Dionysus, who was the god of pleasure and indulgence. So, for Clive to be the human embodiment of Mythos, that means that his very existence serves the purpose of exalting carnal pleasure.

Clive Rosfield is actually, literally just personified sex appeal. He, himself is not a walking libido, per se -- but he’s meant to inspire that in everyone around him.

And he kind of does, considering how many characters in-game want to polish his knob.

Anyway. We’re getting off track I WANT HIM TO GIVE ME SADDLE SORES THAT LAST AT LEAST THREE DAYS

The word “logos” is also not meant to be a title -- and, to be completely honest, I don’t feel like it works the way that the devs wanted it to work. Like, it’s fine. It’s serviceable. But it doesn’t exactly fit what Clive becomes the way that Mythos does.

A more modern interpretation of what the word “logos” means would probably be The Discourse(TM). Logos is the use of logic and reason to explain the nature of the world and mankind’s role in it. Aristotle basically thought of logos as being the thing that sets humans apart from animals -- it’s our sense of self and our ability to think objectively enough to create an actual moral compass.

So, basically, by calling Clive “Logos” Ultima’s just saying he’s attained free will and learned to think rationally on his own -- but that’s also a very basic bitch way of thinking about logos as a concept.

And it’s not as clean of a fit for him as Mythos is, considering that it wasn’t exactly Clive’s sense of self that got him to where he was (he spends like 85% of the game wondering what his purpose is), nor did his attainment of power have anything to do with rational, logical thinking. In fact, the game even goes out of its way to say that Clive is being held up by the faith of those who believe in him, which, I mean --

sure, if you also take into account the whole “Jesus Christ is thought of as being logos incarnate” thing, but like. Then that pulls away from the whole ancient Greek philosophy thing happening and goes into a different metaphor entirely, and everything just gets really muddy.

There are some scholars who believe that the concepts of mythos and logos aren’t mutually exclusive -- and, in fact, that logos actually grew out of mythos. The idea was that people started looking at the myths that they were using and started to apply logic and reason to them in order to get a more nuanced view of the world. But like...

In XVI, mankind started with rational thought when they realized that God (the God that they knew existed and were not just making up as myths) had abandoned them, and then they joined together as a community to create their own image for the world through their use of mythos.

So, I really think the game got it backwards. Clive wasn’t Mythos who became Logos. He was Logos who became Mythos.

But like. Gold star for trying.

I’M JUST SAYING THAT CLIVE HAVING THE TITLE OF “MYTHOS” IS REALLY FUCKING HOT AND EVERY TIME SOMEONE CALLS HIM THAT MY PULSE QUICKENS BECAUSE HE IS LITERALLY SHOULDERING THE HOPES AND DREAMS OF MANKIND AS THE EMBODIMENT OF THE POWER OF HUMAN CREATIVITY IN SERVICE TO A SEX RITUAL

#final fantasy xvi #clive rosfield #ffxvi spoilers #meta analysis

[brianwashere]

Yooooo look at me being a good writer and writing two new stories back to back. I’m awesome, I know. Here’s just a nice lil thought I had that proceeded to spiral into this…so enjoy. The photo under the cut is what I based the necklace off of. And before anyone asks, no. The necklace is NOT a rosary.

**I do not own any characters or part of the franchise from Daredevil or The Punisher**

Pairing: Frank Castle x Murdock!Son!reader/Frank Castle x Matt Murdock

Genre: family and some fluff stuff

Summary: Matt asked Frank to watch something for the day and begrudgingly Frank agrees.

Tw: cussing, some mention of blood

An Unexpected Twist

Of course Frank had obliged to Matt asking him for a favor. Matt had said it was urgent and that he had to look after a package.

Should be easy enough. Plus, Red would owe him one after that.

Frank knocked on the door and Matt opened it soon after. He was slightly disheveled and tying a tie. His red tinted glasses hung low on his nose.

“Oh my God, finally. I need to go now. Gotta be there on time.” Matt had hurriedly explained.

He tightened his tie while walking into the kitchen; Frank followed him.

When he entered the kitchen he saw a kid, probably about 10-11, sitting on one of the barstools. He quirked an eyebrow at that.

“I’ll be back at 10:00 latest, his bedtime is 9:30, recently he’s had some trouble sleeping so he takes one 4mg melatonin tablet. His schedule is clear for the rest of today.” Matt grabbed his bag from the counter and cane from the corner.

He walked to the kid and gave him a kiss on the forehead.

“Love you, Jr.”

The kid scrunched his nose and pulled away from the affection. It only then hit Frank that this was his son. This was Red’s son. And he was babysitting him.

He heard the door close and looked to the kid still at the barstool.

Frank suddenly felt very awkward and cleared his throat

“So, what’s your name, kid?” Best to start there.

You just scoffed and rolled your eyes.

“You’re the babysitter. Shouldn’t you know?” You had sass, he’ll give you that.

“Wanna go out?”

You smirked. Oh he was gunna be wrapped around your finger.

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Frank had tried to take you to the carousel but you’d told him that you were too old for that. He looked very confused.

“Ok what do kids like you do then?”

He took you to a pawn shop per your request. You wanted to show him how it’s done.

You two walked through the foggy glass doors and he followed as you marched yourself straight up to the counter. You turned to him and held out your hand.

“The hell do you want?” His gruff voice asked.

“Two dollars.”

He shook his head in slight disbelief. This was definitely Red’s kid. Blunt as the day is long. He gave you the two dollars. You turned to the man over the counter and placed a gold chain bracelet down on the glass top along with the two dollars.

“I wanna trade.”

The man scoffed indignantly but picked up the bracelet to examine it.

“What do you want for it?” He asked skeptically eyeing you up and down.

You pointed to a silver cross necklace with red rubies inlaid in it. The man barked out a laugh.

“This’ll cover about half that price, sweet meat.”

You set your brow. Frank recognized that look anywhere. That was the look a Murdock gave when you told them no.

“This is a high class pure gold chain bracelet from the 1800s that was past down from generation to generation. Once worn by the queen of England herself. My great grandmother came into possession of it when—“

And Frank watched. He stared as you rambled on about the story and value of this bracelet. It ended with you getting the necklace and giving him the bracelet and the two dollars.

He had gotten you ice cream afterwards. You two sat on a bench in the park and watched the families play and people walk by.

“My dad trusts you.” You said suddenly.

“Oh yeah? What makes you say that?”

“I’m with you right now.”

That made Frank freeze. He hadn’t thought of it like that. Red trusted him with his son. His own flesh and blood. And he trusted Frank with him.

“So what’s with the necklace thingy you hustled the guy over.” He changed the subject quickly. “The hell are you gunna use it for?”

You rolled your eyes.

“It’s not for me. It’s for you to give to dad.”

Frank choked on his own spit.

“Why me!”

“Cause you like him and he likes you and gifts are his love language.”

“Figure it out all like that, eh?” Sarcasm dripped from Frank’s voice.

“You bet.” You replied calmly.

“Why’d you give away such a valuable bracelet anyway? Didn’t even look priceless to me…” He grumbled.

You smirked.

“That’s because it wasn’t.”

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Frank marked the mental checklist he had.

Dinner? Check.

Brushed your teeth? Check.

Took melatonin? Check.

Laying in bed now? Check.

One Red Cross haggled from a pawn shop? Check.

Frank sighed at that last one. Was he really doing this? Maybe.

Matt had come home at around 10:15.

“Hey sorry I’m a little late. Being blind and walking at night in Hell’s Kitchen never goes well, who would’ve thought?” He chuckled slightly.

Matt set his bag back on the counter and his cane back on the wall.

“Well you’re free to go whenever, Frank.”

Now or never, Castle. He pulled the cross from his pocket and held it out to Matt. Matt took it into his hands a ran his fingertips over it. Then he chuckled.

“Let me guess. Jr. gave this to you to give to me?” Matt smiled.

“How’d you know?” Frank coughed with embarrassment.

Matt pulled out a similar silver cross with black jewels in it.

“Cause the little shit did the same thing with me.”

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[justanotherfanaccount]

here we gooooo

shadow and bone s2e2 reaction

ok I know some people didn't like that they changed sturmhond's character but I kinda like it...it makes him more of a "privateer" *cough pirate cough*

also it makes sense that he didn't know the darkling and alina were working together since literally everybody else does...especially since they changed it to have the darkling not be on the ship

darklina scenes are very well done...the desire and the way the darkling is describing his past and his way of thinking

I love the genya darkling sceneeee...it shows that what the darkling is doing is affecting him physically

it almost seems like the darkling doesn't like his nichevo'ya which is a whole different side of the darkling we haven't seen

not the darkling saying thank you and then being creepy as hell

OMG PER HASKELL it's all coming together now...kind of

WYLAN TRYING TO LOOK TOUGH I LOVE HIM

omg not nina knowing everything

Matthias it'll be ok babe 🥺

I love sturmhond only learning mals name after he became valuable 🤭

Tolya and Tamar understanding how Alina felt on the outside of both Shu and Ravkan 🥺🥺

they definitely make Alina more of the "hero" type as well with her originally being the one to want to find the amplifier to tear down the fold

"there is a cost, always, to making difficult choices. The key is making sure that cost is not regret."

"trust is the other side of secrecy kaz, remember that" love them...and their secrets

Pekka never took kaz seriously until crooked kingdom so having him take him serious now is gonna change some things...I just wonder how

aww now we get sentimental sturmhond

Paddy is such a good sturmhond honestly they just casted extremely well because tolya, Tamar and wylan are all extraordinary 😭

ope...he still doesn't know mals name 🤭

"when people say impossible they mean improbable" love

morozovas journal?

confirmed

BAGHRA...well she's not blind...YET...but we'll see

I love this sea whip hunt...the music is so good

I think it's cool that they made it on an island and they were on their feet not on a boat

ahh the helnik flashbacks are so well placed

WYLANNN

his facial expressions 😭🥰

"have we met before?" this man 🙄

wylan looked SO DONE when jesper called him a total stranger 🤭🤭

jack understands wylan SO WELL like he's PERFECT

also wylan and jesper have such good chemistry even though it's still the stage where jesper "doesn't like" wylan...it's great!

no FUCK THAT if that creep ass bitch thinks he can't put inej back in the menagerie

how tf is he getting stabbed and fine with it???

there's that upped rating again (aka watching the madman pull the knives out of inej)

NOT JESPER REMEMBERING WYLAN ONCE HE'S LITERALLY ON TOP OF HIM STFU I LOVE HIM HE'S SUCH AN IDIOT

THE CHEMISTRY

God I love jesper he's so cool

(also don't mind me rewatching all the wylan scenes like 3 times)

I need scenes where kaz had all the shit planned the while time...cuz that was always the best parts in the book

(because when Nina showed up I thought that was gonna be Kaz's whole thing like "everything went to plan")

not jespers thumbs up while wylan was getting choked 🙄🤭

YES WYLAN

omgggg durast jesper GET IT

don't mess with nina she's a bad bitch

ope! here comes the black veil!

did jesper just slap wylans ass? 🧐

OPE THE MAL AMPLIFIER HINT

also him helping her stop summoning 🥺

"my alina" that's some bad bitch energy

#this is way longer than i intended it to be #its so good though #rusalye #shadow and bone s2e2 #s&b s2e2 #shadow and bone reaction #shadow and bone spoilers #shadow and bone #s&b reaction #siz of crows #soc #wylan #wylan van eck #wesper #young kaz #mal oretsev #alina starkov #justanothersbreaction

[ijustwant2write]

Too Trusting-Thor Odinson x Reader

(GIF credit to @slice-of-thunder)

MASTERLIST

Summary: (Y/N) starts to sense a pattern whenever Thor tells stories of his brother, and she can't help but point it out to him.

Characters: Thor Odinson x Reader

Meanings: (Y/N)=Your name

Warnings: Arguing, fluff

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As Thor told me yet another tale about Loki, I had to stop myself making faces or rolling my eyes, because I knew what was coming next as he spoke. Although he was telling the story in a joyful way, I knew that he had gone through a lot of hurt due to his brother. This was how the anecdote would go: Thor was the hero, he needed help, bargains with Loki, everything goes smoothly until Loki betrays him and/or fakes his death. The day would still be saved but Thor was still upset over his brother.

"My love, did you hear what I said?" Thor asked.

"Yes, I did." I didn't mean to snap.

"What is wrong? Did something happened today? I'm sorry, I never asked, I just started rambling."

"No, nothing happened today. It's just..." I didn't know how to go about this without hurting his feelings.

"Yes?"

"Thor, these stories are all the same."

"Oh, I do not believe they are, I've been on many adventures and quests, none are the same as the other."

"Not the stories per say. It seems that every time Loki is involved he...he uses you."

He scoffed with a smile."What?"

"He always either betrays you or lies to you about dying. I just thought after all these times, maybe you would clock onto it."

"Are you saying I'm stupid?" he stood from the bed where we had been lying opposite each other.

I sat up."No, of course not! It's more like, you're too trusting."

"And that's a bad thing?"

"Sometimes it is."

"You don't know Loki, you've never met him."

"I know, but what else am I supposed to think when all the stories you tell me portray him as the cunning one?"

"That's what he is though, the God of Mischief, it's in his nature."

"I understand that Thor, but I thought mischief might mean playing tricks on people. Not invading Earth."

"I told you about that time he turned into snake and bit me, right?"

I sighed, it either wasn't getting through to him or he was too stubborn to admit I was right.

"You don't know my brother. He's...misunderstood. He did not receive the love father gave me as we grew up."

"Well, that's very unfortunate but what did you ever do to him?"

I could see he was getting angry now. I really didn't want this to turn into an argument, maybe I shouldn't have said anything. But if I couldn't tell him, who could?

"Thor, please can you just sit down? I really didn't mean to upset you."

"Well I can't stop thinking about it now. Who else sees me as an idiot? Was I a fool in front of all of my family and friends, my friends from work?"

He was pacing now, slowly, but it was clear to see he was trying to keep calm. When he was angry it wasn't pretty. He had never directed it at me, and I know he wouldn't now, however this had hit a nerve.

"No one sees you that way." I crawled to the egde of the bed, now sat on top of my knees."I only brought it up because I don't like thinking of you in those situations. I just...it sounded like you didn't realise what was happening in those moments."

"I would like to see you battling monsters and evil men, I don't think you would come out of it lightly." he spat.

My mouth dropped open. Now I was angry too. I stood on the bed, only just coming to eye level with him.

"This isn't about me winning any battles! I know I wouldn't last a second out there. Why aren't you acknowledging this?"

"Because no matter how many times I gave him a chance he let me down!"

A sudden crack of thunder made me jump, I faltered on the bed, almost falling. Thor moved to steady me until he saw that I quickly regained myself. But it was weet to see him still caring even though we were bickering.

I let a few seconds pass by, a small trickle of rain gently hit against the windows. OK, it wasn't a huge storm, that was a good thing.

"Thor," I gently said, stepping down to the floor,"I'm sorry for confronting you about this. I thought maybe you were in denial. And I understand why you would be. You love Loki, you want to give him second chances because you're a good person, you see the good in everyone. But you can't let yourself be in harms way when things like that happen. What if the next time he betrayed you-"

"There may not be a next time!" he then looked like he was thinking."Oh, I'm beginning to see what you mean."

I calmly continued."What if next time he betrays you, you get seriously hurt, or killed even! And even if Loki quickly regretted his decision, it could be too late to save you."

Thor lowered his head. He hated being wrong, just like I did. I watched as he turned his back to me, sitting on the end of the bed. I had learned that although Thor liked to be alone with his thoughts, he did need a calmer person to talk things through, make him see this all from a different perspective.

"I didn't meant to make you sad." I mumbled, looking out at the rain."I hope you know I said all this because I love you. It would crush me to see Loki go behind your back again."

He didn't say anything, leaning forward with his elbows on his knees. Slowly I approached him, kneeling on the bed again but behind him. I rested my whole body on his back, wrapping my arms around his torso as much as I could.

"Please talk to me."

"I know you are right. But I don't want you to be."

Oh, he sounded so sad.

"Neither do I. You now I didn't say it out of spite against you or Loki. It's just hard to paint a pretty picture of him."

"I know."

I kissed the back of his shoulder."Do you want to be alone?"

"No." he placed a hand over mine."But, please can we not talk about this anymore?"

"Of course."

"I wish you could meet him. Or have met him before he turned into what he is now."

"Me too."

"I hate disloyalty and dishonesty. I am sorry I got angry but it is a difficult subject for me to talk about."

"I know. Shall we just go back to lying down together?"

"Yes."

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[kafus]

OK my feelings on the pokemon presents

excited for BOTH animated side series they announced!! i love all the side animated content pokemon has been putting out recently i'm really excited for both the TCG thing and the paldea series i hope it's as good as twilight wings

i really need to play detective pikachu on 3ds before the new one comes out oopsies its like the only pokemon game i've never played but the sequel on switch looks charming even though it was very obviously meant to be a 3ds game that got stuck in dev hell and looks the part

as per usual don't give a single shit about all the mobile gacha garbage but it was nice to see nemona even though her english voice jumpscared me (used to her jp one in horizons)

in speaking of horizons very funny to be like pokemon horizons coming soon... as if i didn't already watch it in japanese. god the pokemon anime being on netflix sucks ass

disappointed about no announcement of a battle tower in the SV DLC... at this point im probably giving up hope. HOWEVER im very excited for the DLCs!!

unironically super excited for the fucking Selfie Stick and Room Customization and being able to change how i throw my pokeballs like YES GIVE ME MORE CUSTOMIZATION PELASE FOR THE LOVE OF G

the minigames with koraidon/miraidon look cute i hope they run okay

DIPPLIN AND WHATEVER THE NAME OF THE DURALADON EVOLUTION ARE SO GOOD HDSJKSFD

LONG RAIKOU (ALSO THE MECHA COBALION IS AWESOME)

hearing them refer to a pokemon as just. an ogre. like not an ogre pokemon. An Ogre. was really funny to me. ogres are canon to pokemon now

I WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE FUCKING DISC POKEMON IS AHHHHHHHH

i love all the new character designs in the second DLC especially!! the BB league looks cool

oh yeah and the mewtwo raids were leaked but im really excited about the mew event stuff because my ribbon master mew can get the mightiest mark!! i enjoyed the CG animation they played to announce it as well. cool theyre giving you something to do with ur mew instead of just taking it and putting it in a box forever

everything about worlds makes me jealous im not there but my friend is buying me the lapras/pikachu plush cause hes in japan rn xoxo yay

that about summarizes all of my feelings. i think

#pokemon presents #pokemon presents spoilers #pokemon spoilers #kiki was here #kiki.txt

[blueskittlesart]

please do write an essay about wanderer one day i would love to read it <3

i love you. he is so <3 (essay under the cut because im crazy)

scara/wanderer/whatever you want to call him is so interesting to me because like. out of the train wreck that was inazuma, he managed to be one of the only well-written characters. and he wasn't even on the playable roster for that nation. incredible. why was inazuma so bad

in a way, his character actually functions to draw attention to a lot of the problems i personally have with the way ei/raiden and inazuma are written, namely that ei sucks and never sees a single consequence for her actions or even like. tries to fix her mistakes in any tangible way. Scaramouche was her prototype puppet, meant to be a test run for the eventual figurehead for inazuma which would run on unchangeable ideals while ei fucked off to her mind palace forever. he was not actually used for this purpose because ei saw him CRY and decided he wasn't fit to rule a country, and instead of like... idk doing anything RATIONAL with him she was just like ok. i'll let him sleep forever i guess. surely he will not wake up and resent me for this and turn evil. anyway. obviously he wakes up and realizes why mama ei abandoned him. he of course does not take this well. he internalizes the idea that his emotions made him weak and useless from. basically the moment of his conception. his emotional response is the reason he wass essentially abandoned by his mother. (to be fair, it's unclear if ei was aware that he retained consciousness, but still. throwing him out like trash because he had EMOTIONS was fucked up). this sets the stage for the way his mental state deteriorates over the course of the next couple hundred years.

so the poor kid has been abandoned by his mother for feeling things. bad start. but another important piece of this story is that, as per ei's original design for a puppet figurehead of inazuma, scara was essentially built to house her gnosis (essentially the heart of an archon.) since he never actually got used for that purpose, though, he feels as though he is missing a fundamental part of himself. as he wanders inazuma, he feels that lack of a heart harder and harder as he attempts to connect to humans and finds that he can't quite connect with them. (this is what i think of as his 'trying to be human' era) He struggles with the idea of mortality--specifically, a child that he befriends dies prematurely, and scara can't help but view it as a betrayal--"how could he break his promise and leave me behind?" he becomes acutely aware of the fact that he is not quite human and not quite god, but something in between--something that lacks the ability to feel like a human but was too emotional to fulfil its purpose as a god.

mortality and emotional response, to scara, become signs of weakness. he was discarded due to his emotionalness. his human friends' mortality took them from him. he grows to despise and reject both, which kickstarts his 'trying to be a god era,' which is how we've seen him in-game thus far. the thing is, he doesn't REALLY want to be a god. he wants to be loved. he wants validation and respect and family--everything that was taken away from him when ei threw him out, and when his human friends abandoned him. he tried it one way, tried playing pretend as a human, and only found more pain and suffering, so he decides to swing hard in the other direction, developing a superiority complex as a cover-up for his insane abandonment issues. No one can hurt a god. no one can abandon a god. no one can call a god weak. a god doesn't need friends or family or love because a god is all-powerful. he is convinced that if only he can attain true godhood--a gnosis, the item he was created to house, he will FINALLY be happy. and he decides that it doesn't matter how many people he has to hurt to do it.

(btw, throughout this entire time, ei has been in her mind palace being a deadbeat mom and deliberately ignoring the havoc her son is wreaking on the nation SHE IS SUPPOSED TO BE RUNNING. he even sends a message of introduction to the raiden shogun at some point ("tell her my name is kunikuzushi") which i can only assume was meant to make it back to ei and maybe get her to CARE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE KID SHE BROKE but she either never recieved it because the raiden shogun sucks equally as hard as she does or she heard it and didn't care. ughhhh.)

anyway. obviously this little insane attempt at attaining godhood does not end well for scara. i cant rewatch that sumeru archon quest cutscene without losing all brain function but you know what i mean. he fucks up. his hubris is his downfall. his attempt to bury his emotions and his humanity in order to ascend to godhood give him far too much confidence, and he loses the battle. nahida takes the gnosis and then fucking immediately gives it back to dottore because she sucks. scara's final attempt at finding some sort of place for himself in the world fails spectacularly and leaves him mentally and physically destroyed.

and in 3.3 he is going to wake up and keep going. and i am so so so so excited. i want to know how he heals. I want to see him reconcile with his humanity and his emotions AND with his origins in godhood, and i think having nahida and the traveler help him do that is gonna be so good if they do it right. i LOVE that they're allowing him to still retain a lot of that selfishness and smugness and attitude that makes him compelling as a villain, while ALSO seemingly letting him reconnect with his humanity and become better. i do still hope he gets to beat the shit out of ei tho

#my unpopular genshin opinion is that ei sucks and i hate her. sorry #i could go on for HOURS about how bad ei is at being an archon and running her country and basically everything she does #and no one ever actually does anything about it. they STILL let her run the country after the VISION HUNT DECREE. GIRL??? #anyway. stan scaramouche and fuck ei. thank you and goodnight #asks #ALSO ANOTHER IMPORTANT DETAIL. 'tell her my name is kunikuzushi' the introduction he sent to the raiden shogun. #'kunikuzushi' means COUNTRY DESTROYER. it was an OPEN THREAT and ei continued to ignore him anyway becauseeeee she SUCKS #and then what did he do within the next century? NEARLY DESTROY INAZUMA!!! #like damn thats crazy!! maybe if she had pulled her HEAD OUT OF HER ASS AND LISTENED TO HIM none of this would have happened!!!

[tauremornalome]

House MD for the top 5 things. Choose wisely

oooo thank you so much. finally i can bitch about this

top 5 things i would change in: house md

1. season 6 finale for the love of god. someone has to. im not a huddy hater but i absolutely despise the way they ended up getting together. and it's such a good episode up to that point! delicious whump! emotional torture! this is for sure one of the best premises for an episode this series has ever had. and then they had to tease sth for the next season in the last 5 minutes so they did the most out-of-character idiotic scene to ever exist. terrible. so ideally i would have made huddy get together sometime earlier in 6th season (not much, just maybe one, two episodes earlier) and house's breakdown in the finale to be a problem already for the two of them to overcome. or made huddy happen a few episodes into s7, and have either cuddy come to house in the s6 finale but not sleep with him, or have wilson come there and sleep with house somehow make house pull himself together

2. speaking of how huddy happens in canon, i would also love to change the episode in which cuddy breaks up with house. it's a terrible episode. it's boring. it's the same plot as the episode with cuddy's mum that was only like, what, 5 episodes earlier?? cuddy is behaving extremely out of character, and the breakup comes off very cheap. so. first of all, get rid of the cuddy cancer scare plot (i meannnn it's a nice parallel to wilson later, but it's really not worth it). second of all, have her break up with house in a more rational way, having decided he is too much of a mess, or that her career is too important to her to have to accomodate house at work all the time, or anything else. just have it be a product of rational thinking and not. this shit.

(overall i would have loved for huddy to happen sometime in the earlier seasons, like season 3 i think would be great! then they could have broken up bc of cuddy wanting a child and house not or sth, and they would have many many seasons post-breakup to somehow mend their working relationship and maybe even get to the point of house being a family friend)

3. there are so many -isms and -phobias in this fucking series. so. less of that, pretty please. i'm fine with house being a terrible person in this instance but i would love for the overall narrative to show him the middle finger for it more often. i would especially love to have a transgender or intersex character appear and not be ridiculed bc really. they were pushing it with the gender-related queerphobia.

4. cameronnnnn holy shit could we please get some decent and consistent writing for cameron. she doesn't have to be likeable, just. uaughhh. ok so i would lean more into her forming weird codependent relationships with patients, and her general emotional fuckedupness. i would have added a cameron-centric episode just before the wedding or just after it to show that she's not 100% invested in this relationship. also an episode concentrating around her work in the ER and her coping with how many patients go through her hands and how she doesn't remember most of them. also i would change her name to literally anything that doesn't end in -on like pleaseeee this is a nightmare i can't stand her being named allison cameron. let it be alice.

5. seasons 7 and 8 and the A-plot – B-plot balance. pisses me off when house is spending whole episodes not doing his job. go back to the ducklings. or ignore the case but at least do it on the hospital grounds - speaking of which, ROOF SCENES, WHERE ARE MY ROOF SCENES. there were some really nice roof scenes in the first seasons. i want the roof to feature more in the later seasons. if house must Not Do his job then at least i'd have him doing something silly on the rooftop. hot wheels track. painting the mona lisa naked. whatever.

also #6 bonnie girlie i'm obsessed with you. more bonnie. my favourite worst real estate agent in new jersey. i would have her appear once per each season. she is thirteen's one night stand. she is a clinic patient. she is selling kutner's flat. i would love for there to be more bonnie.

#l9 #house md #lunalunaris

[depressedhatakekakashi]

Yessss, I agree with you. The inconsistent growth of the two of them is definitely sexism at work.

I think people also like to invalidate how strong Hinata and Sakura a actually are in canon too. In the fight with Madara, Tsunade names specific rules for medical ninjas not joining combat and so Sakura isn’t meant to be in combat until she gets the 100 healings. Like she isn’t supposed to be a combat nin per the guidelines set by the creator of med-nins and people constantly point to fights where she’s not fighting as evidence.

(I think her fight with Sasori was different because she didn’t really have to stay out of the fight because she was the only one IN the fight and some like to pretend that Sakura had no impact on how that fight played out despite Sasori admitting she’s a pretty good fighter. She’s also like half his age.)

People can totally hate her, that’s their prerogative, but half the time it feels like they’re just jumping on the hate-Sakura bandwagon and not understanding how the writers view of women impacted how he wrote them.

Anyway, sorry this turned into a rant haha

Ok but this is exactly what i mean.

It’s one thing to hate Sakura because she’s rude to Naruto or pushes Sasuke’s boundaries and refuses to take no for an answer

And it’s completely different to jump on the bandwagon of hate because she’s ‘useless’ or ‘does nothing’

Like, Kishi made Sasuke and Naruto god tier shinobi and then never had Sakura properly reach their level because apparently that’s illegal in his mind? He just refused to let the Main female character actually reach the same level as her teammates.

And not to mention how often he turns her into a damsel in distress.

He didn’t write ONE female on the rescue sasuke arc and i get it sort of. Shikamaru was sexist at that time, but god DAMN IT Tsunade should have put her foot down and had him take Tenten, Ino, Hinata and Sakura as well. There was no good reason to exclude all of them. It was pure sexism that he didn’t write any of the girls having an epic fight, and only had ONE girl make it into the chunin exam finals. (Not even a leaf shinobi. A girl who only won because Shikamaru forfitted which is even worse BS)

Like, i love Naruto

Kishi had a lot if great ideas

But his story is also riddled with unfinished ideas and straight up sexism.

#to be clear i LOVE naruto for what it started as and what it could have been #i don’t go into Boruto because i kinda hated the ending so that’s not really my territory to tread into #but i love exploring the idea’s that never got fleshed out #or taking my favs putting them in an au and giving them the characteriAtion and love i feel they deserved

[foxgirlplushie]

I don’t know jack and/or shit about Arknights besides cute/cool kemono characters but 1 for the ask thing!

Ooooooh you CANNOT expect me to pick just one so I am going to infodump about some of my faves under a cut! (If you held a gun to my head I would have to pick Myrrh, then Perfumer/Sussurro/Frostleaf, then everyone else I talk about)

Ok first up is my url namesake and my icon Myrrh!! Look at her! She's a medic who joined Rhodes Island (the landship you live on) after her friend became infected with magical rock cancer, she specializes in herbal medicine that tastes *awful*, and she has debilitating social anxiety! Gameplay-wise, she has skills that let her heal an additional person every so often and she refreshes everyone's health when you deploy her. She is also transgender. (Myrrh is technically a codename, but she mentions that it was given to her by Kal'tsit [head medic of RI and a lot more but that's complicated lore stuff] and my headcanon is that when she joined up she didn't want to give them her deadname but she hadn't decided on a new name yet, so Kal chose Myrrh for a codename and she just rolled with it)

Secondly is Perfumer! She's another medic who runs the Convalescent Garden on the landship and does aromatherapy sessions. She's very nice and helpful with everyone she meets (she's the one who helped Myrrh develop her medicine to be slightly less awful tasting) and just. So so lovely. Also she's super pretty. In-game she's an AOE Medic, which means she heals for slightly less, but can heal three people at once (with an upgrade that lets her target four!), and a talent that gives every unit on the map small passive healing! Of all my faves she's the only one that's really "meta" (which means she's good for really tough levels).

Frostleaf!!! She's a former child soldier turned mercenary who came to RI for oripathy (magical rock cancer) treatment. She's super quiet and likes music and fashion and also hitting people with cold magic and big huge axes. She was my very first e2 promotion and theres so much good fan content of her. She's a ranged Guard with a massive range and skills that slow or bind enemies, but unfortunately she's very very underpowered compared to other units. HG please my girl needs a buff.

Sussurro!!! Yet another medic, but this one actually went to medical school! She became infected there and now works at RI in exchange for treatment. She's very small but is very serious about being a doctor, and god forbid you treat her like a child. (She has an Operator Record [which is a tiny side story] that focuses on her helping with the aftermath of a natural disaster and kicking ass and inspiring an NPC who doubted her at first to join RI) She has a skill that turns her healing into ABSOLUTE TURBO MODE, but she can only use it twice per level, so don't waste it!

Those are I think my big four favorites, but let's keep going just because.

Vermeil! She's an archer who was a feral child living alone in the woods after her village was massacred. She has a rad prosthetic arm and is my tiny gremlin child.

Red!! The first non-fox operator we have, she's a wolf who was raised by "Grandma" (who we know basically nothing about) and now is an assassin/bodyguard. She has one skill that massively buffs her attack and gives her dodge for a little while after she gets deployed, and one that stuns enemies in the tiles next to her when she's deployed. She has a lot of knives hidden in her coat and is autistic.

Liskarm! She's a defender with an electric shield she uses to zap enemies and a gun, which in this universe is powered by magic. (The electricity is also her specific magic) She's from rural nowhere and dreams of starting her own bodyguard company. Her partner is Franka and they have the specific *bickers constantly and claims to hate each other but really do care deeply about each other* dynamic that is just ... *Chefs kiss*

Franka, Liskarm's partner! She's lighthearted and optimistic and loves pranking people, especially Liskarm. They were both working for a separate mercenary company when Franka got infected and transferred to RI. Liskarm also filed for a transfer without her knowing and there was a *scene* when she found out. (They have a separate side manga series focusing on them and their apprentices and its very good and very gay)

One more because I'm almost at pic limit but we'll finish with Cliffheart!! She's a mountain climber who got infected after falling one day but now shes being treated at RI. Her brother is the CEO of capitalism and her sister is the Cat Pope and they aren't talking to each other which she super hates. She's a Puller, which means she throws hooks and ropes at people and pulls them towards her (usually into a bottomless pit).

#arknights #sorry for long post but i love my blorbos #if you wanna know more i will gladly infodump more about anyone listed or other characters depending #asks

[sagau-fruit-bowl]

ok so im like a mildly unhinged lore hoarder or something but ive been a big fan of your take on sagau bc idk it seems a lot more realistic than the usual “divine creator” sort of stuff. the characters are also a lot closer to canon while still being kinda yandere and honestly it’s really fun to read.

i saw a post recently about how god!reader would fit in while the primordial one (aka the creator of humanity in teyvat) already exists in-game, so i raise you this theory:

in co-op you can have a maximum of four players per world, each player is a guide of their own version of teyvat. so effectively you can have four guides in one teyvat at some point. there are five artifact types per set, each can dedicated to the five shades of phanes: flower of life, plume of death, sands of eon, goblet of eonthoem and circlet of logos. life, death, space, time, and the creator, is how i see it. the crown would be the ‘ruler’; the original god.

so i raise you: four guides can exist alongside the creator, since there’s always a bigger fish, yknow. the primordial one created humanity and the guides, well, guide it. each have a certain artifact type attributed to them and alone they’re pretty powerful, but all four together can achieve wonders.

idk, just food for thought and i probably sound insane but i think it might be an interesting idea if you wanted to include a multiplayer/co-op kinda scenario in your fics. love your work btw!!

MHHM LOVE TALKING LORE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, I HOPE I INTERPRETED THIS CORRECTLY AS I AM VERY SLEEPY. IT IS 5:30 AM.

My theory of Guide!Au and how [Name] being a god as well as fitting in with the teyvat mythology is that multiple guides can exist at one time. The thought that I tried to show in chapter nine is that there are a lot of other people who can do what [Name] does, [Name] is simply in a unique position of actually being pulled into the world. (Perhaps it's not unique at all.)

The difference between the guides and the Creator from the actual lore is that the guides never played a hand in creating the people themselves, however other folks from our world (the folks who do all the development for new updates.) Occasionally show up and mess around, which is why [Name] is seen as being so incredible, they have this power that other gods use to be cruel and all they are is kind. (Some of them may or may not see [Name] as being a young god because they can't do the things the programmers can.)

The thought of the Creator of Teyvats Humanity saying 'No, y'all have fucked with my world enough whenever there are teams of you, only four of you can exist here at a time.' Is hilarious to me.

#fruit rolls to answer

[whichuniverseisthis]

I've decided to start a commentary of the Diamond and Pearl Pokémon Adventures arc, chapter-by-chapter, because I felt like it. I'll use the tag "dp commentary", so if you don't want to see this, since it'll be pretty long, just block the tag, I guess. Also warning, there will be spoiler from other arcs and for later events. Here we go.

First - Vs Starly

Next - Vs Bidoof

Last - Vs Dialga & Palkia VI

Chapter 1 / Chapter 338

I think this is one of the very few arcs where the main leading character (Diamond in this case) isn't the first one shown. SuMo is possibly the only other exception, where Moon is shown before Sun. Maybe XY too.

I'll forever love the fact that Dia and Pearl were never introduced as master trainers or as people with any kind of deep connection with Pokémon. They are two normal boys, they are comedians, they make funny stuff, they didn't even want to leave their hometown to begin with. They are a breath of fresh air from the first six angstier arcs.

Love how honest he looks, because he knows Pearl's dream is real and Dia wants to make it happen just as much, if anything to make is best friend happy.

Platinum is probably the only person ever that could make this outfit look elegant.

I think this is a good moment to say that Empoleon is and always will be my favorite Pokémon ever, so I am very biased towards it and its family.

The beginning of the disaster. Also, I like that they actually gave Platinum a recognizable father, since Lucas/Dawn do have parents in the game when they're the assistant. They even have a little sister.

Them. Honest to God, when I first read this arc back in middle school, I never expected to get attached to Uji and Paka so much. I didn't even expect them to have names, really. It's so funny that they're based on the words "idiot" and "dumb".

Ok but why did this translation change the date? I'm sure the original departure date was the 28th of September, which is why when they're separated they start to wear the winter outfits, because a month (25 days when they reached Canalave, plus the week before the bomb) went by, making the ending almost in November.

Will forever love that Dia and Pearl are the only Dexholders with differently colored Pokédexes, especially Pearl with his orange one. Even Crystal, White and Whitley share their pink ones. Dia and Pearl are just special.

God, the continuous beeping sound in the background. I'm already getting emotional, fuck with the foreshadowing.

I would say so much more, but I'll try to contain myself to 10 panels per chapter. Just know that I love DP and it's characters wholeheartedly, and this is just the beginning.

#dp commentary #pokespe #trainer diamond #pokespe diamond #trainer pearl #pokespe pearl #trainer platinum #pokespe platinum #platinum berlitz

[ejcaswelll]

Based on what you saw in the trailer, what do you expect to happen this season and what do you want to happen (in this case you still have to start from the trailer info, but you can go in whatever direction you want)? This should be fun :))

combined all of these questions into one post bc otherwise i’m gonna be out here copypasting. ANYWAYS right yeah so i’ve seen the first trailer that dropped that had an absolutely suspect amount of ej in and have not consumed any content or spoilers beyond that so i could extend my dreamworld where ej’s the protagonist <3 and also bc i know i would only get angry <3

my thoughts on the trailer are that i saw it more than two weeks ago and therefore have forgotten damn near every part of it which in one sense is a blessing i suppose. my overarching thought on the vibe of the trailer was that it felt Wrong and i know the only reason i’m thinking that is bc it’s not set at school and also seb wasn’t there like sorry how am i supposed to make a joke about seb getting absolutely slam dunked out of the main lead again?? anyway much love to ej going to a camp he’s probably too old for, apparently not giving a damn about his bafflingly unknown college situation, and most importantly getting his legs out……king shit. you didn’t hear it from me but portwell was funky fresh and cute in the trailer and i don’t want to burst any bubbles but they definitely had a cursed feeling lingering around them and his name was ricky.

speaking of ricky, nini’s storyline is obviously going to be wrapped up because miss olivia escaped disney’s clutches and made it out into the big wide world. how they’re going to do this i don’t know, bc in the olden days if you were getting written out you’d just be sent to “europe” or “mexico” and facetime didn’t exist. they can’t exactly just send nini to LA and be like oh did you hear they just banned wifi in the entire state of california <3 i mean. they could actually that would be incredibly funny i hope they do.

ricky’s an absolute wildcard this season especially because it looks like big red is also missing(??) and therefore he’s got approximately one friend at camp and it’s carlos and you know carlos only views ricky as a mildly inoffensive acquaintance at best. this would be a great opportunity for carlos to help ricky realize he’s bi and write a song about it called oh i don’t know, ‘finally free’. (for legal reasons this a joke.) as much as some people refuse to accept this, ricky’s obviously going to break up portwell. like oh my god if i’m wrong that’s great! what an absolute fresh take on a love triangle! unfortunately i will be right though. why any of you have faith in the writers to not careen every character’s development off the rickety track they were already on, i don’t know.

wait this is getting depressing now what fun things do i want to happen. gina getting anna because she deserves it. gina generally coming out of the season happy and thriving like literally leave her alone. uhhhh who else is a character. ashlyn! interested to see what they do with her without big red bc honestly their relationship had reached the point of insufferable for me and i wanted to see if they absolutely drop her character arc after giving her belle last season or take it somewhere interesting. i’m kidding i know they’re going to drop it and just make her gina’s advice giving best friend who will inexplicably push her to go for ricky instead of ej in the last inning <3

i’ve literally forgotten every character this is so funny. kourtney! most likely will take up the now empty slot of nini’s screen time but probably not with anything interesting since they apparently wrote out howie which. ok. she’ll probably get elsa and kill it as per.

this is so funny but i actually have zero thoughts for ej this season like they could literally give him two lines and as we all know i’d still be like wow………i smell an emmy. i hope we get some indication of what’s happening with his college situation like i’ve been asking this for over 12 months now. i hope we get a brief mention of his dad and it’s just that he got indicted for going to the capitol riots.

sorry i literally just remembered this entire season takes place over two weeks. for that fact alone it’s going to be terrible goodnight everyone

#i really just said so many words without anything coherent in between <3

[purityandbeans]

okay,, but.

1) lore/worldbuilding:

this is The reason i watch the mandalorian. I've seen most of the star wars movies, i watched a Small amount of the clone wars, but the Meat of the General Star Wars lore i'm consuming Is in fact from the mandalorian. And what can i say? it's there. It delivers. There sure fuckin are these pterodactyl-lookin dragon-things on this random unnamed desert planet. (is it named? fuck if i know). but more importantly, this sure is the way this group of people Interacts. There are habits and patterns they weave through in their day to day that are foreign to me, there are traditions they hold to and yeah, they may be impractical. They may even highlight Roadblocks that prevent their society from Functioning like the one i live in. If i could not cook someone a meal and see them enjoy it, i Would in fact scream. So much. There's a lot of worldbuilding and lore dumping in the mandalorian. Shallow, matter-of-fact things such as "hey yeah, there's at least one mythosaur on mandalore" to more inference-based things, such as "hey yeah when you're petitioning the covert, it is your turn to speak when you hold the armorer's hammer". Long story short, it's there. It delivers. It is the main attraction for me, and by God does it deliver.

2) cinematography

now i'm gonna be frank - i know Nothing about filming shit. Nothing. What i do know about is making shit up based on Vibes so you sound like you have a point. The camerawork in the mandalorian Definitely exists. It is There and it gets the story across and i have Some issues with it - but it's more pacing and probably belongs in category 3) writing, except i already know that that shit's gonna be long and i Don't want to exacerbate it more than i have to. There is too much combat per episode in season 3 than there strictly Needs to be. I get that mandalorians fight, i get that like. So much of their culture is built around that and that so long ago in the sith wars or whatever they invaded the rest of the galaxy and there were crusades and it was a Whole Thing. But (and i know it wasn't) it *feels* like either half of each episode is eaten by "oh we gots to fight, here is how we go fight, here is the fight" with various "surprise, fight time!"s sprinkled in. It just gets to be gratuitous and unnecessary and yeah, it may be the only relevant to the story thing happening in the lives of the mandalorian(s) at the time - but there are ways *around* that. My personal favorite is, if your character isn't by themselves telling a compelling story, you can shift the pov to a new character and show how the otherwise predictable plot affects them - and shift back later. They kind of do a similar thing by interspersing a second, loosely related plot with the first - but they're too loosely related and it feels jarring to swap back and forth. They're two completely different worlds, two completely different stories, they exist independently from one another and it leaves us with a kind of mystery getting chopped up by all the mandalorian action and stuff that would be Otherwise dropped to tell a concise narrative - were the show not originally about it. so we'll use that to segue into...

3) writing

the writing in the third season of the Mandalorian isn't about anything. Yet. Ok, it's about Din Djarin going to mandalore and finding a new home for his covert and in the case of bo katan it's about finding purpose - but that arc has pretty much sailed and we're back to square one with "what is the moral". In season one, the large takeaway i got was "no matter your lot in life, you can still function with a moral compass". In season two, it was about finding purpose in family. Season three is about... mandalorians. There is no consistent moral or theme to tie things together. There is no emotional pull or weight, there is nothing to invest us emotionally beyond "hey look, grogu does cute flip and Paz is a dad." and "damn i sure hope these mandalorians don't die in their next fight."

Because of this dearth of a theme, and to have some emotional investment in the story, the story has a second main plot. I don't want to call it a side plot, because it takes a Significant amount of runtime and only Loosely relates to the main plot involving the mandalorian covert. But it has this second main plot in which a Friend of moff gideon's is slowly fucking with shit and doing spy things in the new republic's requisitions office, and it's a compelling story. I very much enjoy how the main character of it is someone we see through many side characters' eyes - it paints them as distant and cold and calculating and is the Perfect setup for some behind the scenes villain shit and i am Here for it. We got to see her get close to someone she Knew could easily become a threat and then essentially kill him to protect her own back. Was both good writing and good characterization.

And especially with the end of the latest episode being "hey, mandalorians abducted moff gideon" - I can see how the two plots fit together down the road. But it's a Real fuckin stretch right now, and as i mentioned before - it's Very jarring.

What else is jarring is dialogue choices. Every episode has one or two lines that have stood out to me as "inorganic" and by god this last was no exception. In the aforementioned scene the episode ends on, the last line (or pretty close to) is something along the lines of "Do you mean that mandalorians took moff gideon?" in response to "hey there's beskar embedded in the fucking wall of this dead in the water prisoner shuttle". Now, there are two problems with this. First, yes. It's beskar. The episode gives no reason to doubt that that's the material. Mandalorians - to my limited knowlesge - are the only group of peoples that Use beskar. If a serious question is to be asked here, it shouldn't be "is it mandalorians?" because, yes. Beskar means mandalorians. That's a stupid question. If you need a question in the script, you could ask "are you sure it's beskar", because beskar is very rare and finding a shard of beskar in some random space shuttle would be Very Odd Indeed and Maybe cause to double check your readings. And if you need to spell it out to your audience that "hey, this means mandalorians took moff gideon", don't frame it as a question, it is demeaning. Have the person say "ah, must be mandalorians then" or something - treating it as a Logical Conclusion rather than a theory to field. Second, if over the equivalent of a phone call there is reason enough to doubt that mandalorians left beskar in the wall, don't ask if it's mandalorians. It's not a logical conclusion. It's juet bad.

4) conclusion

when season 3 picks up, i will be very excited. If it picks up. Which it might not. If it doesn't i will cry. But i don't know where i'm going with this, i think ibjust wanted to gut it a bit because it could be better.

#the mandalorian #the mandalorion spoilers #the mandalorian season 3 #star wars #mandalorian #writing criticism