#shrouded in mystery

[thatsbelievable]

#Tonight’s Mood #emotions #moods #affirmations #E.M. Hasty #Shrouded in mystery

[dedalvs]

Sorry if I worded it wrong no you're amazing I love all your languages I felt like you were so busy working on all these shows. Do you also make languages for video games?

I've made languages for two video games. One is Arena of Valor, for which I made four languages and four writing systems, despite the fact that the languages are barely used. I also created two languages and three writing systems for a video game that has yet to come out. I honestly haven't heard anything about it for over a year, and I started working on it at least three years ago. I'm very curious to know what's going on with it. Like, the company is still there. They've even announced a new game that's coming soon that is definitely not the game I worked on. (It also sounded cool, so like...I'd like to play it...?) But yeah, that's all I've done so far.

(Though I also did translations for the Telltale Game of Thrones games. Not quite the same thing.)

#conlang #arena of valor #game of thrones #got #telltale #mystery game #from mystery company #shrouded in mystery #but not myst

[ocalaghan]

i wanna change my ao3 username to something that isn't my url on here but. idk what LOL

#something cute and ethereal #SHROUDED in mystery

[tim-geissler]

Shrouded Feelings

Drawing with Fineliner on A4 Drawing Paper.

#art #drawing #fantasy #illustration #shrouded in mystery #feelings #monochrome #black and white #ink art #ink drawing #sketching #realistic drawing #traditional drawing #illustration drawing #pencil drawing #character illustration #fantasy art #character art #original character #it girl #woman

[howifeltabouthim]

After all, how is any girl really to know anything of a man's life?

Anthony Trollope, from Phineas Finn

#sheltered #gender roles #mysterious #shrouded in mystery #kept apart #separate #victorian era #societal conventions #unknown #relationship problems #quotes #lit #words #excerpts #quote #literature #classics #unequal footing #anthony trollope #phineas finn #social commentary

[egophiliac]

some (extremely) quick doodles to celebrate the glorious return of glorious masquerade! I haven't had a chance to do much personal drawing lately, but I didn't want to let it go by without doing something!

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #glorious masquerade #every time they do a rerun event they should make everyone's hats bigger #i feel that this should be true of every game #i think eng might be getting it this year? if so someone PLEASE tell me if they keep the 'be cool' line #the only localization that matters to me #meanwhile aside from foxman and catboy our halloween event this year is shrouded in mystery #i know they want to do a big fancy announcement and i am looking forward to it! #but it is pretty hilarious to look at the schedule and see basically just 'halloween event 2023 - wait for the abema' #look twst i just want to know if i need to save my keys or if i can waste them all in another bid at masquerade malleus #how pretty are the cards going to be. i need to know.

[the-knife-consumer]

The weirdest thing in totk so far has been finding out that there was an intended method of finding mineru where you were supposed to get hints steadily on who the fifth sage was and you weren't supposed to just force your way through zero visibility thunderstorms for the sake of exploring and then getting jumpscared by a talking construct head and realizing you just triggered a major plot centric quest early to mid game with only two other sages

#just. purah being like. link you wont believe this but theres a FIFTH sage 😮 #and um. you mean mineru my friend mineru #i built her body and then once i found out there was COMBAT i had to do with her i left immediately #bc i was under the impression that she couldnt fight unless you were controlling her. and i sucked at controlling her #so she did end up joining me last as the game inteded her to. but i had her body assembled for a bulk of my game time #like. you cant just put a giant island chain constantly shrouded by thunderstorms in plain sight and expect me to #NOT make a beeline to it. come on. #but i thought about it and the stubling across her on accident was sooo much better then what they wanted me to do #just felt more special and mysterious #totk spoilers

[lvminisciel]

you were many, many things

both the goods and bads. the once and not. you were a lot of things, yet nothing at the same time. you were mine. you are gone. you knew the depths of me. you know nothing of me. you were all i needed. you are all i ask. in this fraction of kindness you sprinkled, i yearn. i wished to be yours once again. to lie in your arms. to embrace your warmest hugs. basking in your sunshine beneath the stars. tainted in your kiss beneath the scars. to hold you close so i won't lose you ever again. to write another chapter with you. you. you. it's always you and never once me. 

i'm sorry for loving you, my little dove 

#i always think; just like how yuu is unable to recognize malleus on their first meeting (or in canon terms; not knowing who he is) #so does malleus by the end of time: unable to decipher who or what yuu really is #nor anyone in whole twisted wonderland in general #moreover if yuu finally leaves for good #which means they existed (ppl hv memories of them) yet didn't exist at the same time (cz in reality that's not where they belong) #both certainty and ambiguity! overlapping in the form of yuu #they're the actual ones shrouded by mysteries #twisted wonderland #twst #twst angst #angst #malleus draconia #malleus x yuu #malleus x reader #miè writes ✍️ #miè's poems #is ths even a poem tho #as for why malleus apologized at the end ill leave it to ur interpretation ;))

[dyslexic-mess]

I buy that Alistor is on Liliths leash. How he got there, no idea, but I'd believe the real reosen he's hanging around Charlie is under orders considering how vaugh he's been about his motivation.

BUT. What I don't buy is Lilith being the big villen. I've seen a lot of people theorise that she's been missing because she's screwing around with heaven or she left because she saw Lucifer as weak or something, but I'm sorry. I just don't see it. Like.

This Lilith???

Your gonna argue THIS woman just up and left her family??? No. Just- no. I don't believe it for a second.

So where IS Lilith, then? If she's not the big bad, pulling strings from behind the sceans, then where is hells queen? Well, this is where I get into speculation territory:

I think she's been kidnapped by Roo.

#bek rambles about crap #hazbin hotel #lilith #it gets fucking buckwild from there #like the idea that Roo is actually Eve #which I whole heartedly believe #She litterally committed the original sin #the root of all evil #you see it right? #even better #big fan of the idea that Lilith is so shrouded in mystery because roo (eve) started inpersonating Lilith #mostly I just love the narritive potential in that idea #how far back did it start? #clearly Charlie dosnt know but dose Lucifer #did he just look at Lilith one day and go 'hang on. thats not my wife' #or dose he not know??? #for all he knows did his wife just up and leave one day??? #he still wares his wedding band! #so eather he's sentimental or lillith didnt just leave she genuinly went missing #and he's under the impression there still a cupple #I NEED TO KNOW WHATS HAPPENING THERE

[blairamok]

don't tell the BBC i am illegally watching one of their precious programmes about british ice skating because it's literally not available anywhere else on the internet

#what am i to do #i have all the information i could ever need on US figure skating but when it comes to the brits it's like shrouded in mystery #but oh. not anymore. i've got you now

[squarebosk]

started listening to death shroud (fallout radio drama), had a breakdown, sketched this 😭

bon appetite

#nick valentine #death shroud #robots #fallout 4 #death shroud: a nick valentine mystery #fallout fanart

[avenger09]

Fallout: Hubris Comics Characters 

#fallout #hubris comics #superheroes #silver shroud #the inspector #grognak #mistress of mystery #captain cosmos #manta man #fallout 3 #fallout 4 #fallout 76 #fallout shelter

[beevean]

"There is more proof of Dracula being a nicer person in the games before Lisa's death"

Where? No really, where?

Because he kind of adopted a bunch of orphans? Yeah sure, on the pact that they'd swear alliegence to him and learn a cursed magic, essentially just using them as yet another tool to tell God to get bent

Because we don't see him bathing in the blood of innocents like we see N!Dracula do in that one flashback? Just because we don't see it doesn't mean that we can't infer a similar behavior by virtue of him being a vampire who needs human blood to live. The dude ruined the life of his best friend by having him kill his own girlfriend just to further his own plan and felt no remorse about it, even kind of gloated about it. Do you really think he'd be above doing the kind of crap N!Dracula used to do? He was already calling himself the King of the Night and was welcoming demons of various kinds into his castle, including a succubus who, like you mentioned in another post,was about to get down and dirty with one of his supposed proteges who was 15 years of age

And while you are technically right about the issues between him and Lisa I'd argue that the biggest issue is the lack of actual scenes detailing the relationship. I'm pretty sure the implication is not that Lisa is scared of her husband, but rather that she knows what he used to be and fears he will slip back once hit with such a massive blow. Had the show given us actual chemistry between the two it could've been nice, rather than making it look like Lisa just saw Dracula as some sort of patient to cure rather than a person to love, since, as it stands, the only thing the two seemed to have bonded over was their mutual love for science which, when coupled with Lisa's lack of care for Dracula's actions in the ending, makes her look like a borderline psychopath who cares more about knowledge than people even though the very reason she sought Dracula's knowledge in the first place was to help those in need

And I cannot in good faith criticize the show for going the whole "bad boy/good girl" route because, like it or not, it's one of the few instances of the show being relatively faithful to the games, where Lisa wasn't even a character, just the archetypical angelical woman who's basically a saint and almost managed to rescue Dracula's soul were it not for her death. The main issue there is that we never actually truly see Lisa, so her thought processes about Dracula are unknown to us, but no matter what we cannot avoid the implications that she knew her husband was a monster, it's practically impossible for her to not have known. Hell, the fact that she had to tell Alucard not to harm humans in and of itself implies that she feared the possibility that he might do so in a fit of rage due to his half-vampire nature. Now where do you suppose that fear might stem from?

For all intents and purposes the show's depiction of the relationship should've been better as Lisa was given some actual screentime, it's just that the show's shoddy writing turned that positive into a negative, but some of the fundemental issues that you mention are baked into the very idea that was already present in the games, they were just far less visible due to said lack of screentime

My bad, I meant to say "nicer" than N!Dracula. I know he's still a dick :P

The issue is pretty much what you said. We sadly have very few details of Dracula and Lisa before she was killed. What we do know paint him in a generally gray light - most obviously the idea that he sheltered rejected humans for the sake of teaching them dark arts, a sort of "selfish kindness" if you will. The show had the chance to give us more to really convince us of the idea that Dracula had good in him, especially since the entire angle chosen for him was "tragic complex villain you can't really blame". And they made things even worse.

We don't know if Dracula went on violent killing sprees for trivial reasons. Maybe he did, or maybe he didn't and found other ways to feed (the games, admittedly, gloss over the very concept of vampires needing humans to feed on). We know that N!Dracula did, and even better we learn this in a scene where we're supposed to feel sorry for his depression: that is the thing I take issue with.

(btw, in that scene N!Dracula didn't kill people for the sole purpose of eating, which would be understandable for a vampire. He took great pleasure in dismembering some merchants for "disrespecting" him. It was a show of power. Again, we don't know if Dracula did the same power flexes, but the implication is that he stayed in his own castle 24/7 and he was merely a legend. IGA confirmed that before Lisa's death, Dracula had no issue with mankind in general, only with God, and he lived a peaceful life: N!Dracula was already a misanthrope before he met N!Lisa.)

We don't see the details of Dracula being a kind, loving family man to Lisa and Alucard. The only line we can go with is the arguably-canon Grimoire of Souls where Alucard says that Dracula regained his humanity with Lisa. Same goes with the show because god forbid a flashback gets in the way of N!Alucard being a dick, but N!Lisa's behavior really suggests the worst. Maybe he didn't beat her or yell at her, but I still think that kind of fear should be unwarranted: N!Lisa has been with N!Dracula for nearly 20 years, she made him travel all by himself, she trusted him with a son, but she thinks (and correctly guesses) that one blow would make him regress to the savage impaling beast he used to be? Why did you stay with him, then?

As for Lisa's final words, I don't read them as clear-cut as it is in the show:

ENG: "Do not hate humans. If you cannot live with them, then at least do them no harm. For theirs is already a hard lot."

JP: Do not blame humans. She said that those unable to forgive mankind will walk the path of their own destruction. Those who do not belong to that world shouldn't do anything...

They're very different, even if the core message is the same. In the English version, yes it can be read as Lisa fearing that Alucard might harm people, but she is mainly urging him to find forgiveness and compassion in his heart (yes it's very Jesus of her, I know). In the Japanese version, that's where she acknowledges that her son isn't fully human, but notice that what she's concerned about is not that they'll kill, but that they'll destroy themselves.

But fair enough about Draculisa fitting the archetype in general. Undeniably the series has an issue with the portrayal of women :P I think that what mitigates it is, again, precisely the lack of details, which makes us come up with our own interpretations on what happened between the two.

I could have explained myself better, but I see a difference between "bad boy/good girl" on its own, which can be cliché but inoffensive, and the idea that a good girl's job is to actively try to fix a bad (read: toxic) boy, like the responsibility is only on her shoulders. We don't know if Lisa saw Dracula as a beast to be tamed: maybe she did, or maybe she simply saw his best traits. We know N!Lisa offered herself to teach N!Dracula "some manners". It's explicit that she wanted to fix him, and clearly she didn't do a very good job at it.

#castlevania #akumajou dracula #draculisa #dracula castlevania #lisa castlevania #anti netflixvania #again tl;dr: my point isn't necessarily how good of a person either dracula is #it's that n!dracula is touted as being so multifaceted and sympathetic when what is actually shown makes him look very bad #dracula's past being shrouded in mystery is both a detriment and a benefit in this sense

[phoebepheebsphibs]

If I can get 250

That would be cool

I might even do something fun about it

#no context #i am a shroud of mystery

[lockandkeyhyena]

admittedly i don't know what equine studies entails so i kind of just imagined this whenever you mention it

ahahahahahahahaha this very much made me laugh

#yeen rambles #ask #i shall stay shrouded in mystery hehe

[girlwiththegreenhat]

i am never going to recover from the death shroud radio play actually

#liz blogs #fallout 4 #death shroud #its been in my watch later for like 3 months now and i just got around to listening to it all the way through #its got everything. its got nick valentine. it's got Funny Bits. it's got amazing universe writing. it's got a mystery. #its got nick valentine again. yes i'll mention him twice he's my peepaw :) nice old man #i should have expected That Ending with Those Voice Actors Present but i was still Unprepared for where that went #demonicae #bitch. i get it now. i get what you meant by 'it was relevant to my interest in more ways than one.' holy shit #that ending was crack to my brain i tell you #it starts like 'oh yeah thismight as WELL be canon though' and ends like 'oh my god thats so delightfully silly and fanfic-y. ... but still #-relatively in the bounds of canon even with that premise.' its good. oh my god its good #obscure videogame crack lore about glados and claptrap dating my beloved. that's the stupidest shit i ever seen (affectionate) #now THAT is a crackship. they are SO divorced #i was not ready for any of that oh my fucking GODDDDD hELP ME #also i never considered nora and danse dating but actually. thats really funny. she has a type. she just replaced her fucking husband #its basically the same guy twice.