#quadruple kill

[jvnkerderek]

FIRE IN THE HOLE!

#Overwatch #Overwatch 2 #Junkrat #Competitive #Rip-Tire #Quadruple Kill #POTG #Play Of The Game

[fearresurrected]

team healed? check.

enemy dead? check.

#overwatch #moira #quadruple kill #moira still has one of the best ults in the game fight me

[tangledinink]

kind of an uncanny resemblance, no...? :3c @tblsomedoodles @tmntseparatedaucompetition

#its ok leo will get some eventually #donnie thinks theyre cool but leo hates them on principle #and when i say principle i mean jealousy #but i think theyd get along overall u w u twin gang and all that lmao #leo: kill the doubles #donnie: i think theyre quadruples? #donnie is just gonna take this as an opporunity to rub the fact that he knows magick and leo doesnt in his face <3 #tmnt sep comp #gemini au #fidgetwing #mikeys imaginary friends au #propaganda #more or less anyway

[thefandomlesbian]

I almost certainly have COVID for the first time, have been fighting a high fever that is minimally responding to antipyretics, feel like utter shit, and this is of course the time my brain decides to go war on whether or not House and Wilson should argue in this particular scene of my fic.

#spencer speaks #house md #hilson #i'm gonna kill someone #i made it 3.5 yrs and mask at work #i got it from a coworker #who doesn't mask. none of my coworkers mask i'm the only one in the building who masks. #i'm quadruple vaccinated prolly not gonna do any lasting damage but i'm aggravated.

[nifft]

Target in sight

#My received count has quadrupled #Oh my lord #⚔ killing bugs — [ooc]

[microwavesex]

im passionate about taking the most unnerving Christmas photos as possible

#Christmas #Santa #BATTLE OF THE SANTAS #KILL YOUR DOUBLE #KILL YOUR QUADRUPLE? #merry christmas #its actually one of the creepiest times of year!

[beevean]

“What did he wish from me, that he even rebelled…? Unforgiveness is my nature. The more precious things are, the more they resist and are lost…”

“I shall take his head as a consolation… One more thing… while this is regrettable…”

“I will obey You…”

«Why are you hurt? Humans are difficult, aren’t they…»

This is my translation: here’s the much more widely available fan translation of the page, which I’ll use as comparison.

This is quite the fascinating conversation, and I think it’s worth analyzing. It happens after Hector confronts Dracula and affirms his own humanity - and gets thrown off the castle keep as a response. But that’s not the point: the point is that these three panels show facets of Dracula and Isaac that I would have never imagined.

“What did he wish from me, that he even rebelled…?”

Not much to say about this line for now, but I’ll point this out: Dracula is genuinely confused. This doesn’t sound particularly angry, not even in a “tranquil fury” way.

“Unforgiveness is my nature.”

I genuinely struggled to find the right word for 情. It can mean anything from “heart” to “emotion” to “compassion” to “situation”, and it’s more commonly found in compounds. The fan translation goes with “Being unforgiving is my compassion”; I think “nature” is more apt, based on compound words such as 人情 (human nature) and because, well, it just makes more sense in context. Lord Dracula isn’t known for being forgiving. Implied, Hector should know that. And yet he rebelled anyway, and Dracula can’t wrap his head around what was so important to him, that he’d rather face the wrath of the Dark Lord.

“The more precious things are, the more they resist and are lost…”

“Precious” is 惜しい, which has three meanings: “regrettable/pitiful” (as in “such a pity that...”), “precious/dear”, and “too good for something” (for example “too good to be thrown away”). The fan translation says: “So is one dear, so is one wrested away”. The other two don’t make much sense and I don’t think they fit grammatically, so I agree with the fan translation for one main reason: the tone of the whole conversation implies that Dracula was genuinely affected by Hector’s betrayal.

This is so intriguing. Is that so? Not just enraged that his underling dared to question him (and how enraged he was!), but actually hurt and confused? The mighty, cruel Lord Dracula? Well, this is purely my speculation, but... remember who else turned his back on Dracula during this period of time? Someone precious to him? :)

That’s got to sting. Ah, if only they didn’t completely ignore Alucard in CoD...

Basically, compare this whole speech with its equivalent in the MF manga, and you’ll see that the tone is very, very different:

While Dracula’s feelings were surprising, Isaac’s softness was also unexpected, coming from him.

"While this is regrettable, I will obey You…”

The fan translation says “I’m sorry to say... I will serve you now”, which... I don’t know if it’s correct? Why would Isaac say that it’s unfortunate that he will serve Dracula? Yes, 残念ながら all together means “unfortunately”, but I think the words are meant to be read separately in this context. It makes much more sense that Isaac is trying to comfort Dracula: “yes, it’s regrettable that Hector left, but don’t worry, I’m still here”.

There is something to be said about the hesitance that comes off with the pacing: “one more thing...”, and “I will obey You” being in a separate panel, to emphasize it. It’s as if Isaac is scared to say those words, because of their inherent gravitas.

(as for “serve”/”obey”, I just found the latter to be a more common translation of 従う, along with “follow”.)

(also when I first read 貴方 it really threw me off - anata? Isaac is calling his Lord anata??? That is way too close. But apparently it really used to be a polite way to refer to someone of higher status that became ruder as time went on, kind of like kisama. So nevermind, Isaac is still being as formal as he should :P I was already ready to question their entire relationship)

“Why are you hurt?”

And this is why I went for the translation above, and what cemented my interpretation of Dracula’s tone: there is personal care here. Isaac is feeling sorry for him and empathizing with him. He’s surprised that Dracula seems to be affected by Hector’s betrayal: it might mean “why are you hurt? You’re Lord Dracula. You’re above this”. That’s why he wants to comfort Dracula, by reaffirming his loyalty and swearing that he’ll bring Hector’s head back. It definitely feels something more than mere servitude.

I wonder if perhaps the sentiment is also influenced by Isaac’s own personal feelings. After all, I’m just assuming that the subject is Dracula. It could be Isaac talking to himself. Japanese is funny like that :)

“Humans are difficult, aren’t they…”

This comment takes sad connotations when you remember the pervasive theme of Devil Forgemasters being human but not feeling like they're part of humanity - fun fact, this is also present in the Japanese version of the Devil Forging formula heard in the game! Devil Forgemasters call themselves “a person who is not of the human world” everytime they forge an Innocent Devil :)

So, does Isaac consider himself as “difficult” as the humans that have hurt his Lord, or is he speaking from a place of detatchment? The tone, along with the art, feels melancholic to me. Knowing Isaac, I would assume that he’s keeping distance from the humans that he resents. “Difficult” is the direct translation of 難しい, but other good translations would be “troublesome” or “complicated”, which have different connotations, and I don’t know which one I prefer.

Have I looked too deeply into three throwaway panels? Maybe. But the potential for alternative character interpretation is too vast to ignore <3 I’m just enjoying a lot this deeper side of Isaac that we didn’t get to see in canon thanks to the Curse (related to this, his honor code when it comes to fighting), and what could be an inkling of humanity from Dracula.

#castlevania #curse of darkness #prelude to revenge #dracula castlevania #isaac laforeze #this post is basically me quadruple checking every word in every speech bubble #basically the only straightforward line is the one about killing hector lol #i'd be a terrible translator because i'd take an eternity and a half #the kisama part is funny because in the game hector isaac and trevor all call each other kisama and it is meant to be rude #because the language is more or less modern despite the setting #it's this manga that really wants to sound old fashioned #to my chagrin :^) #man i can't wait until i finally get to rosaly #i wonder if she also hides interesting things in her speech :)

[redpasserines]

Helena, on mourning.

Car sirens. Blue, red, blue, red. The flashes of light reflecting on the beads of a broken necklace. A shadow standing on the balcony, lightly stepping around the broken shards of the window. The outline, glowing red and blue. And red again. A body, on the floor. The single pearl in her right hand. And Helena, under the table, with her mother’s blood splattered on her cheeks.

Did you come to kill me? 

She skates like she’s running. She doesn’t feel like dancing right now, because right now, she exists twice. She’s eight and twelve years old. She can hear it, the fork clattering, the sirens, the way the wooden floor had creaked when she’d stood; can see the morning’s light, the blue and the red, Damian promising he’ll be back, a man who’d introduce himself as Jason, staring at her. 

Everything always catches back to you, Helena. You’re allowed to be sad. Even if you think it doesn’t make sense. 

The stands are empty. The rink is, too. It’s five in the morning, on a Tuesday. She expects to see her mother there, behind the glass panel. She turns, and she thinks she almost runs into her older brother, who’d never moved on from the shakiness he had in the beginning, but who’d always, stubbornly, tried to catch up to her. 

Her dad holds her in his arms in front of a hole in the ground. He isn’t really her dad, because the dad-she-never-met is like they’d said her mother is, now, as in: laying down in a hole somewhere. It’s hot, maybe twenty four degrees or so, and the sun is shining bright. Helena doesn’t cry. This is all just a bad dream. On the side, she sees more of the stone memorials. 

Her right skate cuts viscerally across the ice. Any other day, she would have felt bad for the people that’d come after her. 

You remind me of my brother. Well, I guess he’d have been your brother too. I mean, I’m Todd’s brother, and yours, too, though, so I guess not necessarily. But he was really good. Not at skating, just. Well.

Helena is twelve years old. Her mother is never coming back. She didn’t leave for a day trip to scout another city. Don’t think that we’re leaving, baby, we’re just racing across the whole Earth. You love racing, I know that because when you were four and in kindergarten, you would make me bring you to school extra early so you could race with the boys.  Helena had stopped complaining, at some point, probably around the time they went to Sweden and she’d learned about skating on black ice. Gosh, she had hoped they’d go back to Toronto, eventually. 

Helena is eight years old. She’s running across the ice. She’s her mother’s daughter, because she’s running away, away from people that she would probably kill her if they’d ever caught up to her. Except, even though that’s all she’s been seeing, maybe because that’s all she wants, she can’t see them. She’ll never see them again.  

She jumps. She knows she shouldn’t, not while she’s angry and falling apart and alone, but otherwise she’d remember. Remember the first time she’d seen Damian in that black and blue costume of his, explaining why he was wearing it. If she concentrated hard enough, she could remember her father’s old red helmet, too, the way it shone in the cave’s low lighting. 

You remind me of him. He would have loved you.

She turns, four times. She lands it. She’s been trying that exact jump for years. It’s not supposed to be possible, technically. That’s what all of her coaches had told her. There are limits to everything, Helena. That’s okay. We just have to live with that. She screams. 

#helena wayne #jason todd #damian wayne #dick grayson #<- implied #selina kyle #This might be terrible and ik the quadruple axel is overdone but I think it makes a sick parallel to Dick (who for context she never met) #Also blue and red which are Dick’s color (that Damian took up afterwards) #and Jason’s color.. not me explaining my whole writing lmfao #anyways. She means the world to me #oh and also idk if that’s clear or not but the shadow she sees is Jason (who adopts her) and the fork clattering morning light bit are when #she learned Damian died. Basically Selina was on the run from people she shouldn’t have crossed and they ended up killing her. Yeah. Sorry

[krenia]

Art Fight attacks batch #6 - the pink theme was not intentional

Kan - Blue3monty

Eff - wrennamon

Mini Bunny - @goosagiboop

Bo - @lact101

#but shows krenias preferance towards characters very well #i've already quadrupled last years output I'm killing it fuck yeah #my art #art fight 2023 #team werewolves

[sketching-shark]

Kind of funny that my first sketches of Sun Wukong in 2023 star him drinking things he probably shouldn’t.

#sun wukong #monkey king #fun new year challenge for my jttw moots: #depict the monkey king drinking things that he's either A) Not Supposed to #or B) Would Kill Him Immediately If Not For That Quadruple Immortality

[fearresurrected]

sneaky sneaky eue

#overwatch #torbjörn #quadruple kill

[waitingforminjae]

jgy was insane for quadruple crossing everyone actually

#like legit quadruple cross #betrays nie mingjue by freeing xue yang and killing his general -> joins the wen clan -> #betrays the wen clan to get in everyone's good graces -> enacts his 16 yr long betrayal and revenge spree against everyone #f: the untamed

[zackcollins]

First Competitive POTG :D

#quadruple deadeye go brrr #very lroud of nyself for pulling that off im a comp game #also #i did kill that moira that fucked off behind the wall #so like #i killed all five people on the other team #go me fr #anyways #enjoy this clip yall #r.t. plays overwatch 2 #overwatch #overwatch 2 #r.t. posts videos #overwatch potg #cole cassidy #cassidy overwatch #cassidy potg #competitive overwatch #competitive potg #play of the game #not sports

[buddy-arc]

how evil are you?

“that's super kind! but considering the data, i think that's, er, exceedingly generous.”

#✖️ | n / ic. #✖ | n / tag games & quizzes. #n who has a kill count in the quadruple digits: um #🐦 | tag games & quizzes.

[1eos]

hold UP, the criminal is still formally a part of vixx?! I thought he left 'gracefully' in his letter out of shame for his actions????

why did i think you meant the song at first 😭 i was like close but not quite you're thinking of hyde. but yeah criminal is official gone 🥳 but the brain dead sub section of vixx fans keep talking abt if vixx reform he can join again and it's like were y'all not paying attention? korea hates his ugly ass and leo would slit that man's throat before just having that bad reputation funking up the place 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

#everyone keeps forgetting that's a whole quadruple scorpio get in the way of their money and they will kill you

[pepprs]

it’s like pointless to say bc it’s all wrapped up in abuse but i wish all abusers who try to find more ways to communicate w / harass their victims after the victims cut off contact w them a very kill yourself <3

#and i wish a particular abuser who did this to my redacted today a QUADRUPLE kill yourself. not to wish death upon anyone but like. lol #delete later #abuse tw #suicide tw #ask to tag #purrs #and also i wish every social media platform that doesn’t have the ability to hide your presence / posts from and make you invisible and #uncontactable to specific individuals a very do it right fucking now i am no longer asking.