Y'all I have to tell you, every time I see the term "Pyre" used as a name for blazeborn family units (like "flock" for avians), I do a little happy dance. I came up with it for a friend's Rancher fic like two years ago by now and I keep seeing it pop up in new Tango fics, and I friggin' LOVE IT. Keep it up guys, you're making my little worldbuilding heart so damn happy 🥰
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you’re the person who really likes hector right? if you are,,do you have any thoughts about his relationship with his siblings that you might,,,,perchance,,, want to share?
YES IT IS ME. Thank you I'm glad it's known by now :))
I mentioned a while back that I'm not all too knowledgeable about tbe Trojan royal family, and i'm still kind of on that. But I like to think that he was really the "big brother figure" for his siblings. He is closer with some of his siblings than others. But he cares for them all, just in different ways. Maybe has different inside jokes with different siblings. He'd wrestle with some and he'd let some braid hid hair. After growing up (mostly during the trojan war), he became a bit more distant as everything took a toll on him. However, he still knows how to be gentle and how to relax around his siblings (especially the youngest ones. He can really have fun with them). he can also be a bitch towards the ones he's not really close with or fond of. But imagine how many siblings he lost during the war. That would have affected him and his relationships with his siblings quite a bit, i think.
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There are a number of things in Crimson Shroud I was kind of iffy about that put me off playing it, but now that I am I actually find I'm liking it quite a bit. The writing, art, and music are all very moody in a way that's familiar to me (Yasumi Matsuno + Basiscape, you know how it is lol, plus I think the guy who did the art took notes from Akihiko Yoshida) and while I originally found the tabletop aesthetic to be off-putting (your guys are always represented by little tabletop figurines, and dice that you physically roll with the stylus are a big part of the mechanics) over time it's really really growing on me. I think it's kinda cute ngl.
I feel like this is the type of game I would've been obsessed with if it had come out in the early 2000s and I'd played it then. Really weird, very stylistic, thick with lore for a relatively short game, not very well known, moody tone... Like it brings Summoner to mind, actually, which was a flop of an RPG that came out in the early 2000s that was also openly and heavily inspired by Dungeons & Dragons, but also I have a lot of fond memories of it lol. And that game was also very moody
Also you can totally tell this was intended to be a sequel to Vagrant Story originally, it wears its spiritual predecessor on its sleeve. It really feels like a journey through Lea Monde abstracted through figurines, dice, and dungeon maps. This might be heretical to say... but I'm kinda... enjoying it more than I was Vagrant Story, LMAO. I think for two reasons: 1. turn-based combat is more familiar to me, so I'm adapting to Crimson Shroud's mechanical depth much more quickly, and 2. the major female character in this game, Frea, is actually playable, and is your party's linchpin. Will always be lamenting Callo Merlose's demotion to NPC in vanilla Vagrant Story for game memory reasons u_u
The main dude is also growing on me unfortunately. "Giauque," the stupidest possible version of "Jack." I had my hackles up when he internally referred to Frea as a she-dog early on (shortly after she was revealed to be a member of an oppressed fantasy ethnic group, which like. I don't even want to get into all that shit right now, but it's the other reason I was put off by this game) but over time I think it's clear that was just a very poor way of demonstrating their usual dynamic, which is that he took Frea under his wing and likes her quite a bit, but portrays himself as a gruff, amoral lout, so he prefers to bicker instead of be effusive. The implication is that they're a bit like each other IMO, both too sharp-tongued for their own good
I also know a ton of spoilers so I'm paying lots of attention to Frea in the frame story... We'll have to see how it's handled, but I do like that the main antagonist of this game is a woman. So few games feature a woman as the primary villain, and even if they do, they find ways to blunt her impact (like Ultima in FFT, she's resurrected at the ass end of the story and then Ramza & co. kill her immediately), so I'm curious to see where Crimson Shroud will go with Abigail (an insane name for a villainess in a dark fantasy piece btw)
BASICALLY I think if CS was a fifty-hour game I might find it more exhausting, but since it barely hits twenty if you're taking your time, I'm a lot more invigorated by it. The short runtime works in its favor IMO.
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Would you ever consider putting Tio in the Zoom-mates verse?
(sorry if you've answered this elsewhere)
You know, Nonny, there was a time I resolutely said “no, nay, never” to even the idea of Zoom-mates baby…
If there ever was to be another story in the Zoom-mates verse and it did feature a baby, I do think I’d go with a new OC. While it would be interesting to explore that dynamic (adopted baby in a modern AU is certainly something I would be interested in), I wouldn’t want to essentially rehash such a similar premise.
So, I guess Zoom-mates baby would have to be a total terror. Refusing to sleep and constantly grumpy. Risk adverse, perhaps?
Into frogs though.
And Star Wars, to annoy Rayla.
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Heya! I had to private some posts for safety reasons... I'm all fine! But I did it just in case... I think you can still find them on other people's blogs via reblogs tho :)
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