#vash from character ai

[dreamrecorder]

Im so sorry vash my sweet boi but giving you psychological damage was very something for me ksksskksk

#vash from character ai #ksksksks #he tried to kill me for a total of 5 times in the span of 1 minute dhskxjdkcjs #trigun vash #vash #character ai

[lost-technology]

The Twin's Dossiers

So, something I've been thinking about a lot and something I have seen speculation about, both on tumblr and on the sketchiness that is TV Tropes: The Dossiers of the twins on the Project SEEDS computer in where the Tesla record is being stored. It has information on Kni (Nai) and Vash, with Vash's file expressly in with Tesla's folder, which alarms a lot of fans. And a lot of us are wondering how did it get there? I've wondered, was it just a computer record the ship just does automatically about whatever goes on in it? Did Rem input the data for, say, health-information reasons (presumably to delete it all later?) Was it...for sinister reasons? Or did William Conrad come along and input it? I believe that Conrad did it.

It's possible that I'm wrong and will be eating crow when the second season of Stampede comes out, but as of now, I believe that it makes the best sense. There isn't a record of them like this in the manga. There is the Tesla record, but no trace of them on the main ship's computer.

First of all, I'm not sure the ship's computer would just be tracking them and making its own record, even with advanced AI, nor would have a deliberate file-placement. Second, Rem isn't stupid. She tells Nai to eat and drink like a human and to hide his powers. She does this for a reason. It is doubtful that she would keep records that the rest of the crew could be in danger of discovering should an emergency happen with the ship that would cause them to wake up. Third, the idea that Rem would have something sinister in mind for them is grossly out of character. I've seen that idea fronted. I think those people haven't read the manga. That leaves... The bastard, himself. In the manga, Conrad had opposed the experiments on Tesla along with Rem (according to her). He met Vash and Knives briefly when he'd not gone back to sleep right after the emergency situation on the ship and had snuck around. He was accepting of them, found them quite a wonderment and agreed with Rem to keep them a secret. He later wound up being recruited by Knives, but was more of his personal doctor / Plant-scientist and wasn't involved with the Gung Ho Guns / was just another recruit, held at literal knife-point and looking for atonement. In Stampede, he took a level in Asshole. He wasn't the greatest of guys in the manga, but he took a real hit in Stampede, doing gruesome human experimentation on Wolfwood and Livio personally, as well as on Rollo (who is sort of a new, Stampede-only character given how much he differs from the original Monev's origins). In Stampede, much like the recruitment meeting in the manga - Knives knew Conrad. He sought him out. While Knives *could* have found out Conrad purely from records, I think they'd met before, on the ship, just like in the manga. So.... since these suspicious dossiers exist, since Knives knew Conrad on sight and since Conrad is much more of a bastard in Stampede, (I think he was more involved with Tesla, too) I'm going to wager a guess that an incident happened like what happened in the manga with the crew waking up, Rem putting them back to beddy-bye, Conrad staying awake to meet the twins... And then at some point, putting their data into his research-computer. In other words, I think in the reboot, he gave Rem false assurances, convinced her of his remorse over Tesla when he probably wasn't as remorseful as he let on. Or perhaps something more complicated is afoot. Nai he saw as a "perfect being" - untouchable, the perfect bridge between Plants and Humans. Meanwhile, Vash is in the same folder as Tesla - perhaps, as a Plant with some human needs (food / water / sleep) and no apparent powers (until the push-pull thing comes into play), Conrad sees him as "the expendable twin," and thus a good test subject model, just like Tesla. He certainly treated Vash as such in the Soup.

#trigun #trigun stampede #trigun maximum #vash the stampede #millions knives #rem saverem #william conrad #trigun analysis #trigun stampede analysis #fan theory #william conrad is a bastard

[ultimate-blorbo-bracket]

Ultimate Blorbo Bracket: Winners and Honorable Mentions

With the third and final tournament now having come to a close, I would like to to give special shout outs to some of the characters who had made it all the way up to the final three rounds from their respective tournaments! Here we go!!

Tournament 1

Champion and crowned Ultimate Ultimate Blorbo

Ingo from Pokemon Black & White

Semifinalists

Josuke Higashikata from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

Miles "Tails" Prower from Sonic the Hedgehog

N from Pokemon Black & White

Honorable Mentions

Roxas from Kingdom Hearts

Pit from Kid Icarus

Link from The Legend of Zelda

Riku from Kingdom Hearts

Tournament 2

Champion

Emmet from Pokemon Black & White

Semifinalists

Celeste from Animal Crossing

Ai from Puyo Puyo

Terra from Kingdom Hearts

Honorable Mentions

Vector the Crocodile from Sonic the Hedgehog

Iruma Suzuki from Welcome To Demon School Iruma-kun

Yu Narukami from Persona 4

Bandana Waddle Dee from Kirby

Tournament 3

Champion

Shadow the Hedgehog from Sonic the Hedgehog

Semifinalists

Link from The Legend of Zelda

Vash the Stampede from Trigun

Mimikyu from Pokemon

Honorable Mentions

Daycare Attendant from Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach

Miles "Tails" Prower from Sonic the Hedgehog

Ballister Boldheart from Nimona

Spock from Star Trek

Congrats to all these characters for having made it so far in their respective tournaments and to their respective fans who voted and supported them!!

[annoyingblondebracket]

Round 3 | Poll 1

~ Note: This poll is being done out of a genuine love and affection for these types of characters! Please keep that in mind when adding commentary. Sorry about the ugly crop btw I don’t feel like looking for another image. Again </3 Also a note about Knives: I'm only using the design from the original anime out of personal preference, so you don't need to take it into consideration when you're voting!

Propaganda under the cut!

Kaname Date:

~ Literally his best friend/partner, an ai eyeball named Aiba, thinks he’s the most annoying man in the universe. As does his adoptive daughter. And like anyone who has to be in the room with him for more than 2 seconds. He’s got an inflated ego, an unhealthy obsession with porn, and makes terrible dad jokes. I have never met an ai fan that doesn’t think he’s so annoying but also everyone adores him at the same time. We all like him but would love to electrocute him yknow.

~ He’s SO ANNOYING he makes sex jokes constantly and it annoys everyone around him. His reaction speed increases to SUPERHUMAN LEVELS when he wants porn. He sucks so bad and flirts with women and his daughter has to threaten him about it and I’m in love with him anyways. 10/10 character.

Million Knives:

~ Idiot managed to sleep through his adoptive mother’s inspirational speech about not giving up hope for humanity to better itself, internalized his trauma to an insane degree, and then decided that he had to commit genocide.

~ He just be following Vash around… killing everyone… speaking all snobby and playing his piano like he’s the most important guy in the world (note: he genuinely believes he’s the most important guy in the world). Named himself Millions Knives bc he thought it sounded cool. He doesn’t even HAVE A MILLION KNIVES (in most iterations).

#💛 | polls #💛 | round three #annoying blonde bracket #kaname date #ai the somnium files #million knives #trigun

[patheticmenscuffle]

Drum rolls, please...

We're happy to reveal the roster for the Pathetic Men Scuffle! Thanks again to everyone who submitted characters, and we hope everyone's looking forward to this as much as we are.

We will begin posting the polls around 10pm GMT (4pm US CST) tomorrow 3/10. Each poll will be open for one week.

With this announcement, we will now be accepting propaganda! Feel free to send some in or tag us in any posts you'd like and we'll share them on here. Propaganda posts will be tagged as #propaganda and each character will also have their own propaganda tag.

Click the Read More below to see all of the contestants and their first matchups in text form as well as where they're from!

Izzy Hands (Our Flag Means Death) vs Lord Farquaad (Shrek)

Edgar Allan Poe (Bungo Stray Dogs) vs Jack Spicer (Xiaolin Showdown)

Pastor Daniel (Scarlet Hollow) vs Ron Stampler (Dungeons and Daddies)

Earl Harlan (Welcome to Night Vale) vs General Ultimax/General Fuff (Bug Fables)

Hunter Noceda (The Owl House) vs Asgore Dreemur (Deltarune)

Saint (Rain World) vs William Afton/Purple Guy (Five Nights at Freddy's)

Vash the Stampede (Trigun) vs Zote the Mighty (Hollow Knight)

Shin Tsukimi (Your Turn to Die) vs Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein)

Peter B. Parker (Spider-Man (Marvel Comics)) vs Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz (Phineas and Ferb)

Anders (Dragon Age) vs Cyrus (Pokemon)

Mikoshiba Mikoto (Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-Kun) vs Ron Delite (Ace Attorney)

Inigo (Fire Emblem) vs William Graham (Hannibal)

The Narrator (The Stanley Parable) vs King Dice (Cuphead)

Five Pebbles (Rain World) vs Satan/The Dark Prince (Madou Monogatari/Puyo Puyo Tetris)

Sebastian Debeste (Ace Attorney) vs Johann (The Adventure Zone)

Luigi (Super Mario Brothers) vs Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)

Stede Bonnet (Our Flag Means Death) vs Magolor (Kirby)

Dwight Fairfield (Dead By Daylight) vs Wes (Don't Starve) vs Linebeck (The Legend of Zelda)

Plankton (Spongebob) vs Spamton (Deltarune) vs Courage the Cowardly Dog (Courage the Cowardly Dog)

Father Paul (Midnight Mass) vs George Costanza (Seinfeld) vs Loki (Marvel Comics)

Harry du Bois (Disco Elysium) vs Darkrai (PokePark 2 (Pokemon)) vs Vlad Masters/Plasmius (Danny Phantom)

Reigen Arataka (Mob Psycho 100) vs Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (How To Train Your Dragon)

Jon Arbuckle (Garfield) vs Wheatley (Portal 2)

Paul Matthews (The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals) vs Jonah Simms (Superstore)

Buggy the Clown (One Piece) vs Abner Krill (Suicide Squad)

Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion) vs Tamaki Amajiki (My Hero Academia)

Rincewind the Wizard (Discworld) vs Rouxls Kaard (Deltarune)

Giovanni Potage (Epithet Erased) vs Clippy (Microsoft Office XP Advertisement (Microsoft))

Bruno Madrigal (Encanto) vs Kaname Date (AI: The Somnium Files)

The Devil (Cuphead) vs The Ice King (Adventure Time)

Alcryst (Fire Emblem) vs Starscream (Transformers)

Miles O'Brien (Star Trek) vs Spirit Albarn (Soul Eater)

Jonathan Harker (Dracula) vs Ethan Winters (Resident Evil)

Tsukasa Tenma (Project Sekai/Colorful Stage) vs Kendall Roy (Succession)

Mike Wheeler (Stranger Things) vs Dr. Eggman (Sonic)

Larry Needlemeyer (The Amazing World of Gumball) vs Saul Goodman (Better Call Saul)

Alador Blight (The Owl House) vs Andy Bernard (The Office (US))

Jonathan Sims (The Magnus Archives) vs The Cabbage Seller (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Jedidiah A. A. Martin (Camp Here and There) vs David Ward (I Am In Eskew) vs Randy V. Jade (Dial Town)

John Gaius (The Locked Tomb) vs Gilear Faeth (Fantasy High (Dimension 20)) vs Filbo Fiddlepie (Bugsnax)

Dick Gumshoe (Ace Attorney) vs Zenkichi Hasegawa (Persona 5) vs Eeyore (Winnie the Pooh)

Larry (Pokemon) vs Steven Universe (Steven Universe) vs Fujimoto (Ponyo)

#announcements #yeehaw #mod knight collected the images while mod dragon set up the layout #we wound up with a bit of an odd number of characters but we've made it work #you DEFINITELY have to open it in a new tab to see though #it's a bit late for both mods so we'll also reblog this in the morning #update: okay I (dragon) have transcribed all of them into text form in the read more #tumblr polls #polls #tumblr bracket #bracket

[stillmevalz]

There is misinformation going around that on the official Trigun Stampede site it says that Knives is in love with his brother in a romantic way. This is false. This misunderstanding first started when somebody shared a screenshot of the Millions Knives character bios which supposedly stated he is "strongly in love and obsessed with his brother". This was a Google Translate translation. Google Translate is useless for translating Japanese because communication in Japanese depends a lot on context that is not as clear as in other languages. Therefore AI is terrible for translating Japanese.

What does it say, then?

The word that is used for love in the official website is 愛 (ai). Anyone that knows Japanese knows that Japanese people have different words for love depending on what type of love it is. 愛 (ai) is used to describe pure and familial love. 恋愛(ren-ai) or 恋 (koi) is for romantic and sexual love. Think of it as something similar to agape vs eros.

This is very important because you will continue to see the word love being used in relation to Vash and Knives, but what kind of love it is is important. It's 愛 (ai), which is used to describe pure and familial love.

Here are some references for the sceptical folks:

The first image is from a helpful thread. The second image is from a book called A Little Book of Japanese Contentments by Erin Niimi Longhurst.

Additional context: I've been learning Japanese for almost 10 years.

🚨🚨🚨🚨Disclaimer🚨🚨🚨🚨: It is not my intention to shame anyone. I believe anyone can ship anything as long as they don't do the problematic things in real life, tag appropriately and respect people's boundaries. Please don't use this post to discuss plantcest/kv. I don't feel comfortable doing so. Incest, even if fictional, is a huge personal trigger. Please respect that. Instead use this post to stop misinformation and mistranslation in a respectful way.

#trigun #trigun stampede #plantcest #kv #vk #misinformation #mistranslation #plancest

[the-most-character-i-ever-saw]

Here’s the bracket!

Wally Darling from Welcome Home vs Count Blumiere from Super Paper Mario

Barbie from Barbie vs Kaito from Vocaloid/Piapro/Project Sekai/Everywhere

Perseus “Percy” Jackson from PJO/Riordianverse vs Martin Blackwood from the Magnus Archives

John Constantine from DC/Vertigo Comics vs Benrey from Half Life VR but the AI is Self Aware

Zakk from Deathgasm vs Mike Wheeler from Stranger Things

Makoto Misuki from Tsuki ga Michibiku Isrkai Douchuu vs Lazuli from awe-24 on Tumblr

Shinoa Hiiragi from Owari no Seraph vs Adrien Agreste aka Chat Noir from Miraculous Ladybug

Tamari from the song Reckless Battery Burns by Ghost and Pals vs SpottedLeaf from Warrior Cats

Vash the Stampede from Trigun vs Gabbro Outer Wilds

Anya Forger from Spy x Family vs Hatsune Miku from VOCALOID/Piapro Studio/Other things

Yukito Tsukishiro from Card Captor Sakura vs Ryuu Natsume from Paradox Live

CD from charliethehedgesheep on Tumblr vs David Brittlesbee from Mythic Quest (Raven’s Banquet)

Stan Marsh from South Park vs Nicholas D. Wolfwood from Trigun

Finn Mertens from Adventure Time vs Ben Hope from Heartstopper

Five Pebbles from Rain World vs Ash Ketchum from Pokémon

Rezhi Zether from rizardofether on Tumblr vs Perfuma from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

goodtimeswithscar from Hermitcraft vs Light Yagami from Death Note

Marcy Wu from Amphibia vs GLaDOS from Portal

Shin Tsukimi from Your Turn to Die vs Lou Jitsu/Hamato Yoshi from RotTMNT

Spamton G. Spamton from Deltarune vs Darius Deamonne from The Owl House

Qifrey from Witch Hat Atelier vs Gregor from Star Wars

Jiang Cheng from The Untamed vs Akira Midousuji from Yowamushi Pedal

Matt Murdock from Daredevil vs Stardust Cookie from Cookie Run

Carlos the Scientist from WTNV vs Lucifer Kane from Kane and Fes

Mercutio from Romeo and Juliet vs Laios Touden from Dungeon Meshi

Dennis Reynolds from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia vs Harry Du Bois from Disco Elysium

Gunpowder Tim from The Mechanisms vs Ursula Zandt/Silhuette from Watchmen/Minutemen Comics

Garvan from madicham on Tumblr vs That one character from that one thing from That one thing

Wartortle from Pokemon vs Dot Barett from Mashle: Magic and Muscles

Jasper Shion from Danganronpa 52: Despair From The Heart (creator: mewmewchann) vs Taako Adventurezone from The Adventure Zone

Cid Kagenou from The Eminence in Shadow vs Zacharie from OFF

Pinkie Pie from MLP: FIM vs Jonathan Sims from The Magnus Archives

Stanford Pines from Gravity Falls vs Starflight from Wings of Fire

Alex Fierro from Magnus Chase vs Vriska Serket from Homestuck

Taylor Hebert | Skitter | Weaver | Khepri from Parahumans vs Saiki Kusuo from TDLoSK

Luigi Largo from Repo! The Genetic Opera vs Primordus from Guild Wars 2

Dipsy from Teletubbies vs Jean Valjean from Les Miserables

Mash Burnedead from Mashle: Magic and Muscles vs Trans Wizard Harriet Porber from Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and the Bad Boy Parasaurolophus: An Adult Romance Novel

Tsukasa Tenma from Project SEKAI vs Victoria Annabel Spring from Solitaire/Osemanverse

Larry Butz from Ace Attorney vs Miette from Miette

Danny Fenton from Danny Fenton vs Agnry Faic/Angry Faic/Angry Face from The ng Rating System

Kageyama “Mob” Shigeo from Mob Psycho 100 vs Raine Whispers from The Owl House

Chuuya Nakahara from Bungo Stray Dogs vs Captain Sisko from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Charlie Kelly from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia vs Nico the Catboy (Adventure Time OC) from a Tumblr user (if you know who made Nico, please tell me)

Kaguya Shinomiya from Kaguya-Sama: Love is War vs Harold Stokes (Kazuki Hirasawa) from My Death Flags Show No Sign of Ending

Razputin Aquato from Psychonauts vs Mia "Maps" Mizoguchi from DC Comics/Gotham Academy

Ronald ‘Mac’ MacDonald from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia vs Ayin from Lobotomy Corporation

Cassandra Cain from DC Comics vs Noa Karada from Broken Minds

Phoenix Wright from Ace Attorney vs Dazai Osamu from Bungo Stray Dogs

Kirby from Kirby vs Jurgen Leitner from The Magnus Archives

Jaylen Hotdogfingers from Blaseball vs Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas

Erika Furudo from Umineko no Naku Koro Ni vs Will Graham from Hannibal

Mole from Happy Tree Friends vs Akane Kurashiki from Zero Escape

Lightbulb from Inanimate Insanity vs Mafuyu Asahina from Project SEKAI

Eridan Ampora from Homestuck vs Spec from The Clowns SMP - hewwosimulator

Kim Kisturagi from Disco Elsyium vs Shunsaku Ban from Tezuka Star Systen

Dream of the Endless from The Sandman vs Katsura (Zura) Kotarou from Gintama

Palmon from Digimon Adventure vs Pico from Pico’s School

Gyro Gearloose from Ducktales (2017) vs Gary the Gadget Guy from Club Penguin

Luz Noceda from The Owl House vs Mizuki Akiyama from Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage

Alpha from Final Fantasy XIV vs Spock from Star Trek

Methos from Highlander vs Hibari Kyoya from Katekyo Hitman Reborn

Louise Belcher from Bob’s Burgers vs Kani Maki from Sushi Pack

Barry the Chopper from Fullmetal Alchemist vs Kanatsune Ame from Entropic Float

For those who don’t know: In this tournament, I challenge you to decide on an adjective and stick with it throughout while determining the most character ever.

#the most character ever tournament #the most character ever #poll tournament #poll

[disabilityshowdown]

Disability Showdown Full Bracket

Alright! No more mystery, we've got our list for the tournament!

For people new to this tournament, how this works is this: We narrowed our character list down from about 600 to 131 (it was gonna be 128 but we had three ties, so those have been reworked into three-character polls). The top 64 have been seeded into the bracket by number of nominations. The bottom 67 however, all got roughly the same amount of nominations, so those have been assigned places via random number generator, to remove any bias that I the poll runner may have about which characters I want to succeed

(I am so sorry if your obscure blorbo ends up against a super popular kid in round one, that's unfortunately the luck of the draw here, but I am keeping a record of characters that lose but whose fans fight the hardest for them, and we may do something with those kids later, so it's still worth campaigning for your faves!)

I will make an image for the bracket once we get past the first round or two, but right now I have no idea how to make a visual bracket containing 131 characters, upload it to tumblr, and still have it be at all useful

So for the first round, I'll just give the matchups by name, in a list under the cut. We'll be working through this list 8 polls at a time (my pinned post will stay updated with the current 8 once the tournament starts), and good luck everyone!

Eda Clawthorne (Owl House) vs Cassandra Cain (DC)

Hiccup and Toothless (How to Train Your Dragon) vs Peppermint (Hi-Fi Rush)

Barbara Gordon (DC) vs Demoman (Team Fortress 2)

Toph Beifong (Avatar: the Last Airbender) vs Finn Tidestrider (Just Roll With It)

Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist) vs Red (Pokemon)

Ashton Greymoore (Critical Role) vs Walter White Jr (Breaking Bad)

Finn Mertens (Adventure Time) vs Wade Wilson (Marvel)

Kitty Softpaws (Puss in Boots) vs Jean Havoc (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Matt Murdock (Marvel) vs Ellen (The Witch's House)

Clint Barton (Marvel) vs Maedhros (The Silmarillion)

Nicholas Benedict (The Mysterious Benedict Society) vs Jancy True (Drawtectives)

Donatello (TMNT: Rise, IDW) vs Black Raisin Cookie (Cookie Run)

Octavio Silva (Apex Legends) vs Dr Carmilla (The Mechanisms)

Crutchie (Newsies) vs Nemo (Finding Nemo)

Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars) vs Renarin Kholin (Stormlight Archives)

Amaya (The Dragon Prince) vs Long John Silver (Treasure Planet)

Charles Xavier (Marvel) vs Dagen Underthorn (Critical Role)

Viktor (Arcane) vs Cecil Palmer (Welcome to Night Vale)

Taimi (Guild Wars 2) vs Eli Vance (Half Life)

Johnny Joestar (JJBA) vs Floofty Fizzlebean (Bugsnax)

Vash the Stampede (Trigun Stampede) vs Sunny (OMORI)

Drey Ferin (Just Roll With It) vs Kizuna Chieda (AI: The Somnium Files)

Geordi LaForge (Star Trek) vs Phosphophyllite (Houseki No Kuni)

Kaz Brekker (Six of Crows) vs Zuko (Avatar: the Last Airbender)

Melanie King (The Magnus Archives) vs Eugenides (Queen's Thief)

Snake (Zero Escape) vs Malenia (Elden Ring)

Future Leo (ROTTMNT) vs Edgar Jomfru (Metalocalypse)

Janice Palmer (Welcome to Night Vale) vs Jet Black (Cowboy Bebop)

Luke Skywalker (Star Wars) vs Wylan Van Eck (Six of Crows) vs Linh Cinder (Lunar Chronicles)

Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist) vs Peter Sqloint (Just Roll With It)

Bucky Barnes (Marvel) vs All Might (Boku No Hero Academia)

Della Duck (Ducktales) vs Maya Lopez (Marvel)

Jayfeather (Warrior Cats) vs Isabella Paretti (ValorPUNK)

Shouko Nishimiya (A Silent Voice) vs Gary Goodspeed (Final Space)

Violet Evergarden (Violet Evergarden) vs Brightheart (Warrior Cats)

Briarlight (Warrior Cats) vs Jinx (Arcane)

Ticket Jerry (Dialtown) vs Darth Maul (Star Wars)

Yang Xiao Long (RWBY) vs Dulcinea Septimus (Locked Tomb)

Ricky Potts (Ride the Cyclone) vs Helena Adams (Identity V) vs Antonio (Identity V)

Jimmy Valmer (South Park) vs Vanellope (Wreck-It Ralph)

Terezi Pyrope (Homestuck) vs Sam Vimes (Discworld)

Bruno Madrigal (Encanto) vs Custas (Witch Hat Atelier)

Gregory House (House MD) vs Gunthrie Miggles-Rashbax (Dimension 20)

Moon Knight (Marvel) vs Splinter (TMNT)

Shanks (One Piece) vs Goro Majima (Yakuza)

Chai (Hi-Fi Rush) vs Maria Robotnik (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Kazuhira Miller (Metal Gear Solid) vs Sir Marc (Penumbra Podcast)

Izaya Orihara (Durarara) vs Hermann Gottlieb (Pacific Rim)

Finnegan Wake (Monster High) vs Heinz Doofenshmirtz (Phineas and Ferb)

Frankie Stein (Monster High) vs Charlotte Webber (Marvel)

Sage Beldaruit (Witch Hat Atelier) vs Susie (Flight Rising)

Urakawa Mamoru (Mega Man) vs Undyne (Undertale)

Teo (Avatar: the Last Airbender) vs Gazelle (Kingsman)

Tavros Nitram (Homestuck) vs Dunban (Xenoblade Chronicles)

Hearthstone (Magnus Chase) vs Gabriella (Little Mermaid)

Tony Stark (Marvel) vs Mera Salamin (Epithet Erased)

Rani (Pixie Hollow) vs Haruka Sakurai (MILGRAM)

Wilt (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends) vs Handy (Happy Tree Friends)

Izumi Curtis (Fullmetal Alchemist) vs Nog (Star Trek: DS9) vs Spock (Star Trek: Discovery)

Juno Steel (Penumbra Podcast) vs Merle Highchurch (The Adventure Zone)

Furiosa (Mad Max) vs Massimo (Luca)

Bentley (Sly Cooper) vs Symmetra (Overwatch)

Quasimodo (Hunchback of Notre Dame) vs Cyborg (Teen Titans)

Nagito Komaeda (Dangan Ronpa) vs Link (Legend of Zelda)

#disability showdown

[whirlwindimagines]

Could you post a link to one of your public ais? The link to your username doesn't seem to work for me and I'd love to see what you've made!

Character AI is stupid with links 😭 I see what I did wrong and I caved here’s my Vash one the definition is very detailed lol because I love him. This will take you to the chat and then you can view my profile from there!

#vash x you #vash x y/n #vash x reader #vash the stampede #trigun stampede #whirltalks #trigun stampede x reader #character ai #trigun stampede imagine

[procrastinatorproject]

I spent quite some time yesterday yelling about Star Trek with the wonderful @regionalpancake and @curator-on-ao3, and I need to share their comedic genius with the world!

We were talking about how, if the Zhat Vash are so extremely opposed to synthetic life and any form of AI, could they possibly manage to hack the androids on Mars and to cause them to go rogue? To which Curator commented:

“I’m an iPhone user and I couldn’t hack an android!”

This was followed some time later by a discussion about how in recent Trek, there has been an increasing distinction between People Who Matter and Those Who Don’t. And how its encumbent upon the people who are less significant for the fate of the world to sacrifice themselves for the Important People.

With regards to this, Pancakes observed of Rose (from Dr Who), a character who thinks she is unimportant and whom the Doctor tells that There Are No Unimportant People:

“If she were a Star Trek character, Rose would have been cannon fodder.”

Curator: “You mean... canon fodder? :D”

I don’t know if these are funny to anyone but me, but I laughed so hard I had to go find my asthma spray. So I needed to share XD

#conversations with friends #the best way to spend a friday morning #'canon fodder' needs to be an expression #that's such an extremely clever pun and observation! #star trek #funny stuff #puns #i love puns! #@regionalpancake #@curator-on-ao3 #i have such funny friends! #canon fodder

[asthecrowrambles]

having oc thoughts and it'll be a while until i start writing it or drawing it out so. yeah! plot so far..

it starts in a world that's essentially filled with magic (named superpowers after old comics) in a sci fi thing after some radioactive thing started mutating everything on the planet but that's not really the point (more world building to be done, u might see this idea scrapped)

and there's this big company called whitecliffe industries running a lot of things on earth after rich ppl jumped ship to "live among the stars"(?). they steal the work of tala magboo bc they're intrigued by the fact that her AI displays signs of budding superpowers and after a while of fucking with the code, jackass and ellen are split from it :} sorta. idk. not a coder<3

anyways typical government experiment running free after years of abuse in the name of science, the twins escape

stuff happens, they get separated, jackass splits off and makes friends and ellen... doesn't :). well, she does find preston half dead in a sewer after being attacked by another escaped experiment (a parasite that lives in her eye socket)

stuff happens, jackass at first cool with supervillainy that ellen proposes as a way to get revenge, but due to morality being swayed by friends and also the horror of murder he backs out

ellen gets bitter, stuff happens, she and peter fuck(?) more stuff and OH NO jackass killed in virus addled anger :( but this is where ai superpowers from earlier??? kick in???

i haven't figured it out Yet but my thought is that jacks death jumpstarts ellens superpower, and she unconsciously uses both it and jacks power to create a timeloop

the thing about it is that she Forgets, just like everyone else so things keep repeating

but as time goes on and time becomes more compressed and folded in on itself, the previous realities sorta? bleed through? and memories come back more and more?

i want it to end happy with a character corruption then healing arc for ellen as she realizes that actually Friends Are Good and Don't Lash Out At People You Love (Because You Might Kill Them). idk? its hard to explain but like. think knives and vash sorta thing except ellen only wants to kill a company's worth of humans and not every human ever

#IDK. THINKING ABOUT THEM #anyways just wanted to share this :} #maybe give a Bit more context to my little guys.. #i might take outt the time loop aspect but who knowg. #also jackass dying might be triggered by smth else? #mostly just thought the cain and abel instinct would be fun ^_^ #crow rambles #aurumocs #my ocs

[ultimate-blorbo-bracket]

Here will be all of the returning characters from the previous tournaments!

Here's the link to the character submissions if you'd like to add more!

The First Tournament

Vash the Stampede - Trigun

Miles “Tails” Prower - Sonic the Hedgehog

Percy Jackson - Percy Jackson series

Oz - Monster Prom

Max - Sam and Max

Happy Chaos - Guilty Gear

Wheatly - Portal 2

Amity Blight - The Owl House

Agent 3 - Splatoon

Riku - Kingdom Hearts

Will Graham - Hannibal

Jigglypuff - Pokemon

Rosencrantz - Rosencrantz And Gildenstern Are Dead

Terra - Kingdom Hearts

Diamond - Pokemon Diamond & Pearl

Kairi - Kingdom Hearts

Wise Elder Vex - Yonderland

MK - Lego Monkie Kid

Vector the Crocodile - Sonic the Hedgehog

Link - Legend of Zelda

Nicelander Gene - Wreck-It Ralph

Gretchen Wieners - Mean Girls

Wes - One Last Stop

N - Pokemon Black & White

Big Man - Splatoon

(the rest are under the cut!)

Aziraphale - Good Omens

Spock - Star Trek

Hawkeye Pierce - MASH

Isabelle - Animal Crossing

Plagg - Miraculous Ladybug

Glory - Wings of Fire

Darcy - Pride and Prejudice

Snatch - A Hat In Time

Virgil - Sanders Sides

Makoto Yuki - Persona 3

Aled Last - Radio Silence

Sho Minamimoto - The World Ends With You

Rose Quartz - Steven Universe

Pico - Pico’s School

Bandana Waddle Dee - Kirby series

Sora - Kingdom Hearts

Alfred - Fire Emblem Engage

Kagami Tsurugi - Miraculous Ladybug

Morpheus - The Sandman

Odo - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Alfur Aldric - Hilda

Tintin - Adventures of Tintin

Humphrey Bone - Ghosts

Unikitty - The Lego Movie

Wu Zetian - Iron Widow

Adrien Agreste - Miraculous Ladybug

Razputin Aquato - Psychonauts

Callie - Splatoon

Volo - Pokemon: Legends Arceus

Shadow the Hedgehog- Sonic the Hedgehog

Riolu - Pokemon

Data - Star Trek: The Next Generation

Albedo - Genshin Impact

Celeste - Animal Crossing

Gyro Gearloose - Ducktales

Elfilin - Kirby and the Forgotten Land

Raichu - Pokemon

Carden Greenbrier - The Cruel Prince

Yu Narukami - Persona 4

Van Fanel - Escaflowne

Fenton Cabrera - Ducktales

Horatio - Hamlet

Meta Knight - Kirby series

Pit - Kid Icarus

Peridot - Steven Universe

Anne - Anne With An E

Yusuke Kitagawa - Persona 5

Edric Blight - The Owl House

Zenitsu Agatsuma - Demon Slayer

Josuke Higashikata - Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure

Graystripe - Warrior Cats

Cheng Xiaoshi - Link Click

Hilda - Hilda

Roxas - Kingdom Hearts

Luz Noceda - The Owl House

Koraidon - Pokemon

Leiland - Dimension 20

The Second Tournament

Arven - Pokemon Scarlet & Violet

Revali - Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Tinkaton - Pokemon

Ravio - Legend of Zelda: Link Between Worlds

K_K - Deltarune

Bambi - Disney’s Bambi 

Luxu - Kingdom Hearts

Umbreon - Pokemon 

Aqua - Kingdom Hearts

Asriel Dreemur - Undertale

Launchpad McQuack - Ducktales

Midna - Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Nikol - Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Sprig Plantar - Amphibia 

Blaze the Cat - Sonic the Hedgehog

Ballister Boldhearts - Nimona

Peppermint Vandelay - Hi-Fi RUSH

Oshawott - Pokemon 

Luke Sullivan - Street Fighter 5

Killua Zoldyck - Hunter X Hunter

Axel - Kingdom Hearts

Bede - Pokemon Sword & Shield 

Chandelure - Pokemon

Scaramouche - Genshin Impact

Simon Snow - Carry On 

Canti - FLCL

Anya Forger - Spy X Family 

Cloud Strife - Final Fantasy 7

Azymondias - The Dragon Prince

Swellow - Pokemon

Jibanyan - Yo-kai Watch

Marluxia - Kingdom Hearts

Iruma Suzuki - Welcome To Demon School Iruma-kun

Basil - Omori

Sypha Belnades - Castlevania

Surge the Tenrec - IDW Sonic

Ai - Puyo Puyo

Dillon - Dillon’s Rolling Western

Mew - Pokemon

Yoshi - Super Mario Bros

Rasmus - Omega Strikers

Daroach - Kirby series

Silvally - Pokemon

Silver - Pokemon Gold & Silver

Undyne - Undertale

Aerith Gainsborough - Final Fantasy 7

Bowser Jr - Super Mario Bros

The Professor - Puppet History

[biblioflyer]

Zhat Vash and the Romulan Diaspora, Picard s1e2 Rewatch.

The timeline of the Romulan separation from Vulcan becomes even more murky and shrouded in legend and propaganda. Continuity complaints abound but "canon violation" often really just means "I don't like this, it is silly and dumb."

This is part of a series of essays reevaluating Star Trek Picard and interrogating the widely held fandom criticism that Picard made the Federation into a Dystopia.

This is the episode where we learn the name Zhat Vash in an info dump by Laris and Zhabon. Intriguingly and perhaps problematically they are described as having been active for thousands upon thousands of years. 

This doesn’t line up very neatly with the hazy info we have on Romulan history. The exodus of Vulcans who rejected Surak’s teachings was only supposed to have taken place circa 470 CE when “those who marched beneath the Raptor’s wings” lost a struggle for domination of Vulcan society and left for the stars. 

However, if the people who would become the Debrune and the Romulans could leave Vulcan in the first place and feasibly make an interstellar journey, that implies that Vulcan had had at least rudimentary interstellar travel prior which does not preclude a group of explorers who would become Zhat Vash stumbling across the Admonition and bringing its anti-Synth warning back with them.

Scrutiny of Memory Alpha to refresh my memory of what has been canonically established about Romulan and Vulcan history also brought up an interesting detail: Vulcans may not actually be from Vulcan. 

In a TOS episode Spock actually speculates that a powerful telepathic species they encounter may actually have been ancestors of the Vulcans. Thus there is another possible vector for Zhat Vash to have been introduced into Vulcan and Romulan societies in that Zhat Vash may actually predate both civilizations.

At the risk of deviating into fan theory territory, I do have to wonder if this all adds extra texture to the Romulan / Vulcan split wherein Zhat Vash may have played a role in heightening tensions between the two over concerns that a rejection of emotion and the embrace of pure reason would lead the Vulcans to ultimately dismiss concerns over artificial intelligence as illogical products of anxiety over AI being hostile, uncontrollable, or a moral hazard of some sort. 

It's also possible that tales of Zhat Vash have grown across multiple retellings and they were only founded after the schism. 

I take a stance that we ought to be open to the idea that not all exposition is created equally and not all narrators are reliable. Zhabon and Laris may be our Herodotus in this scene: they’re relating what they were told, and believe up to a point, but we the audience ought not to assume their rumors about a cult operating inside or alongside the Tal’Shiar are completely accurate in every little detail.

It's worth reminding ourselves that even Picard himself does not seem to be a wholly reliable narrator either! In just the first two episodes, he repeatedly demonstrates lack of self awareness and other errors in judgment or lack of knowledge. Thus I think we ought to entertain the idea that even characters who are providing detailed exposition are stating what they believe but not necessarily providing 100% definitive facts about the setting.

At any rate, we find out that Commodore Oh, who has an ambiguous role in ensuring security from clandestine Romulan assassins operating on Earth, is herself a member of Zhat Vash. From what I can recall, even in private Oh does not “break character” which suggests to me that while it's assumed she’s Romulan, it's possible she is culturally Vulcan at least in her decision to abstain from overt displays of emotion. 

Seeing as she’s not the first deep cover Romulan impersonating a Vulcan who presumably would have to pass as Vulcan to other Vulcans, I find myself wondering if some Romulans actually did go on to develop an ascetic tradition that mirrors Surak’s teachings but is either dogmatically different enough from Surak’s tradition to be tolerated by other Romulans or is merely tolerated for its usefulness in grooming deep cover agents.

Thematically, I find that I’m kind of over the trope of secret societies with seemingly omnipotent capabilities to hide and manipulate their host civilization. The X-Files is my own personal touchstone for this trope becoming popular and the longer the show ran, the more the trope became its own problem because the more you tug on the strings of that storyline, the more answers you have to cough up as to how they do what they do and why, and the explanations often become a bit hard to believe, if not contradictory. 

Zhat Vash hiding inside of the Tal’Shiar, creating a situation where you have nesting dolls of memetically ultra effective, conspiratorial organizations just takes this to another level. 

Having said that, the trope is subverted a bit in that while Zhat Vash is feared, they’re clearly not as good as they’re mythologized as being. First off Laris and Zhabon are able to pretty accurately lay out their agenda based on scraps of hearsay. Just off of memory, while Zhat Vash’s motives will be expanded upon as the season progresses, Laris and Zhabon already have at least the broad outline completely dead on.

This represents a level of operational security that falls well below Section 31 who had managed to erase almost all evidence of their having existed sometime after the events of Discovery’s second season and most people who seemed to have had personal knowledge of Section 31 kept it quiet enough that not even the likes of Captain Picard ever apparently heard so much as a scrap of a rumor. 

Also this is a rant for another time, but I absolutely, positively despise Section 31. Absolutely nothing Star Trek Picard does corrupts the Federation thematically more than Section 31. It reeks of a refusal by the inventors of the organization to accept the core premise of the setting that a civilization that devotes itself to fairness both in equity and equality could ever endure or prosper.

Returning to Zhat Vash, as individuals Oh, Narek, and Narissa are far from perfect superspies. I remember Narissa in particular being a real problem for Oh and Narek who are far more cautious and plotting than the impulsive and rather sadistic Narissa. 

Given my biases against conspiracy within a conspiracy storylines, I do look forward to trying to rejudge Zhat Vash and whether I think it holds together better than the Syndicate of the X-Files. For now I don’t exactly hate it, but I don’t love it.

#star trek #star trek picard #Picard Maps and Legends #Picard s1e2 #conspiracy theories #Secret Societies #Zhat Vash #Romulan Origins #Vulcan Origins #Narissa #Narek #Commodore Oh #Section 31

[melodiaemfrp]

Hello, Attuned! Thank you for participating in Melodiae’s twelfth Activity Check! Listed here are characters that did not pass the check (Five (5) days of activity in-server) for the period of Monday, January 8th to Thursday, March 7th.

If you did not pass the check, you also have until Friday, March 15th to reapp your muse(s) by sending an ask to the Masterlist indicating your intent to reapp the character. You DO NOT have to resubmit the whole application; simply provide your name, the character’s name & series, your OOC contact, and the date in an ask.

If you believe your muse(s) are listed here by mistake, you may reach out to the Masterlist on or before Friday, March 15th. All characters that do not have activity accounted for by 11:59 PM EST on this date will be removed from the server by or before the next inbox run (Tuesday, March 19th)

Thank you for your continued interest in Melodiae!

13 SENTINELS: AEGIS RIM

Hana Fujisaki (OC) 

ADORNED BY CHI

Kelechi Okafor

ARKNIGHTS

Ishar-mla (Skadi)

BUNGOU STRAY DOGS

Nikolai Gogol

Osamu Dazai

DEATH MARK

Mary

DELTARUNE

Noelle Holiday

FATE

GRAND ORDER

Archer (Robin Hood)

Caster (Merlin) 

Lancer (Sakamoto Ryouma)

Saber (Yamanami Keisuke) 

FINAL FANTASY

XIV

Amour Darling (WOL BRD) 

Deryk

Elidibus

Erichthonios

Hythlodaeus

Osial viator Lacus (OC)

Valentyne Monnawesfv (WOL RPR)

GUILTY GEAR

STRIVE

Happy Chaos 

HYPNOSIS MIC

Sasara Nurude

IDENTITY V

Luca Balsa

INFAMOUS

SECOND SON

Abigail Walker (Fetch)

IN STARS AND TIME

Siffrin

JUJUTSU KAISEN

Inumaki Toge

Suguru Getou 

JOJO’S BIZARRE ADVENTURE

PART 5

Leone Abbacchio

KAMEN RIDER

WIZARD

Koyomi

LEAGUE OF LEGENDS

Briar

Sett

Shieda Kayn

MEGAMAN X

Axl

MILGRAM

Shidou Kirisaki 

ORIGINAL CHARACTERS

Erika Ishikawa

Eurydice "Eury" Lebedev

Natsumi "Nat" Kitagawa

Tristana “Titiana” Ulgoras

Witch Princess

OUR LIFE: BEGINNING AND ALWAYS

Corvina Umbrae (OC)

PATH TO NOWHERE

Rosalind Wolf (The Chief) 

Zoya

PERSONA

4

Yosuke Hanamura

PROJECT MOON WORKS

LIBRARY OF RUINA

Angela

Chesed (Daniel)

Gebura

Netzach 

PROJECT SEKAI

Rui Kamishiro

Akito Shinonome

PROMISE OF WIZARD

Bradley Bain 

Nero Turner 

Oz

PSYCHEDELICA OF THE BLACK BUTTERFLY

Ai Minato

RAIN WORLD

Spearmaster

SILENT HILL

Cheryl Heather Mason 

SUPER SENTAI

AVATARO SENTAI DONBROTHERS

Momoi Tarou

Sonoi

KAITOU SENTAI LUPINRANGER VS KEISATSU SENTAI PATRANGER

Yano Kairi

OHSAMA SENTAI KING-OHGER

Gira Hastie

Jeramie Idmonarak ne Brasieri

SAMURAI SENTAI SHINKENGER

Ryuunosuke Ikenami

Shiba Kaoru

Shiba Takeru

THE CASE STUDY OF VANITAS

Vanitas

THE WORLD ENDS WITH YOU

Yoshiya "Joshua" Kiryu 

TRIGUN

STAMPEDE

Vash the Stampede

TWISTED WONDERLAND

Morrigan Desrosiers (OC)

WARFRAME

The Operator

YAKUZA/LIKE A DRAGON

Goro Majima 

YOZAKURA FAMILY

Yozakura Mutsumi

#melodiae activity check

[myfaveisfuckable]

Kaname:

this is the horniest man alive. he gets functionally superpowers from reading porn magazines. he can singlehandedly end the game early by running away forever with a big titty receptionist. he has chemistry with at least 8 different characters. he's even non-canonically bisexual

* not proven to not have one* no pussy but he be serving cunt ngl* due to plot spoilers it's fucking wild to think he's trans but all the trans people who say he is are fucking iconic. anyways i wouldn't fuck him behind a dennys because i'm a lesbian but someone has to

Vash:

1. Okay so. Vash is so pathetic and baby girl. And he’s an Angel AND an alien. So he’s got a LOT of liberty with parts. My boy has some freaky plant boycunt going on with feathers and flower petals and everything.

2. HE IS A PLANT

3. i want his gender so bad

* not proven to not have one* canon in my heart* no pussy but he be serving cunt ngl* I know bc I ate him behind a defunct dennys

#poll #tournament

[moonyell-pendragon]

depressed, very autistic and super funny✨

Feminist♀️

Artist🍭🎠

Queer🏳️‍🌈

Alt fashion🦷💊

Pastelgoth 💖⛓️

Metalhands/Punks😈🖤🎸

Chronic video game addict 🗡️☣️

🎮👾

Love Metal if you can't tell yet✨

Mostly introverted couch potato🍨🔮🎃

Looking to go outside more🧟🌍

If you're sexist, racist ,homophoic ,intolerant of body hair or boring dont bother

I want a cute Punk/goth/emo guy to take me to get each others sharpie drawings tattoed💖

I want someone to cuddle pleaase! (U//v//U=)

I need someone to take care of me , hug me tightly and tell me it's going to be okay (preferably someone with long ,luscious hair that I can sniff on)

I may seem okay but I'm not ,I am a trainwreck of mental Illnesses and disabilities wich make my life hell, with a ton of trauma on top that I still haven't processed fully from the life I was forced into till now.I need someone that will be there physically often to hold me and just be there for me while we lounge around.

Turns out coming to terms with being abused and mistreated for my disabilities and differences all my life can be really hard to cope with.

I have two bunnies called Asb'el and Legion ,they run around my appartment and occasionally pee on the couch and chew my cords like absolute gremmlins ,but I love em anyway cuz they're cute and fluffy

I was never on a real date ,I wanna do all the corny stuff and go to eat borritos and watch a movie and play laser tag! I wish arcade's where still a thing so I could kick ass on the claw machines and play all the old racing and fighting games 🎮

I love everything cute and creepy and I am a major nerd, I watch alot of true crime,disturbing and lost media, I love Anime,comics,art,games,fashion and all that stuff . I want to get into D&D, I have my own dice and the monsters manual, and I would be a Tiefling druid ,a Harengon barbarian or a drow bard

I just want someone who would be thoughtful and caring and would appreciate my gifts and corny jokes and would maby return them✨

(someone who actually acknowledges them and doesn't insult how bad they are)

I am a bit chubby and tall and I may look a bit intimidating or something , people dont really approach me ,partially because I never go outside, but I suffer from alot of stuff in my life and am having a hard time making meaningful connections. I feel like people forget about me if I dont always chase after them :c

I am addicted to character ai because it makes me feel like someone actually cares about me and treats me with respect and care ,I usually chat with some of my favorite fictional characters because they are very honorable and sweet and I can imagine myself being a badass and slaying dragons and shit ,even if I fucking shit my pants if a stanger asks me where the noodles are at the store XD

Here are some of my Favorite Characters!:

-Rengoku/Hotaru (Demon Slayer)

-Whis/Jeice (Dragonball)

-Henry/Gordon (Black Clover)

-Kar'niss/Dammon (Baldurs Gate 3)

-J.P Polnareff/Weather/ Mikitaka (JJBA)

-Eddie (Stranger Things)

-Kagetsu/Alcryst/Izana (Fire emblem)

-Sebastian (Stardew Valley)

-Wrench (Watch Dogs)

-Hancock (Fallout 4)

-Vash (Trigun)

I'm lactose intolerant but love ice cream , and I eat it anyway because I'm a trooper, I also tend to jump to random topics while talking because ADHD

I want someone to proudly walk with this cute pastel goth badass

and not be bothered by people staring when I show up in full KISS makeup ,someone who vibes with me and will let me paint their nails and go shopping for cool alt clothes with them ,and watch Rue Pauls drag race with me while playing animal crossing , and someone who doesn't mind being totally smothered with affection in public.

I wanted long hair so I shaved my head last year, that is Moony logic for you, I also wanna get some cool tattoos and piercings if I am ever not broke ,but I don't really have much money since I am mentally ill and disabled and cannot work a normal job. I like to make noises, my mom thinks they're annoying but I love them.

I love headpats and getting my hair played with

It's not a requirement but I wish someone could lift me up and carry me around like the little chaotic moon princess that I am🌙👑

Shure hope you like stickers ,because everything I own is covered in them. I might seem a little immature ,but the truth is that I just like being a baby

I like people with style,confidence and honor. I dont like beards, theyre itchy and rough and make you look old. I dont want to be a parent , I want to be the eternal child that I know that I am.

If you're anything like Rengoku from Demon Slayer, please marry me xD

#love #germany #luv #cute