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You know the whole Roche is degrading thing hit hard but especially because when you go back and look at him before the Nibelheim fight... he didn't look like he was doing too great either. Looking back at it now, I can definitely say oh yeah, something was probably up, but while I was playing it never occurred to me. Idk if Square Enix actually pulled a good trick or if it only worked on me but it feels pretty neat

Like in Nibelheim he clearly looked like shit. It's so hard to get a good screenshot of this man because he's always fucking moving around but here is

He looks bad, right? Here he is in a good pose too, not stumbling like he does in some moments, but he obviously looks exhausted

Meanwhile here is a screenshot of him in Under Junon, way before this

Like... he already looked bad here. Massive bags under his eyes, and I don't know whether I'd say his cheeks look sunken they certainly don't look full either. Also he already had streaks of degradation white hair. The only thing the Nibelheim fight has that makes him look actively worse is the torn clothes, but that's it

But while it's kind of obvious in hindsight, it never hit me before Nibelheim? For starters, again this man never fucking stays still. That alone makes it hard to look at his face directly long enough to notice much. His lighter hair is degradation in hindsight, but also very easily passable as just tricks of the light. His face is thin, but it can also pass off as him just having particularly sharp features - although every other male character has much fuller cheeks, including characters meant to be thin and sharp like Reno, or more square and masculine like Rude. And he's far from the only character with visible eyebags, and it can even seem in character considering Remake showed us he was on night patrols, and he definitely seems like the kind of person who sleeps 3 hours a day and runs on caffeine and drama alone

No idea if he was already meant to end up with this role in Remake, but there's some moments that also seem intriguing there in hindsight. When he and Cloud have their on foot duel, Roche comments it's been a while since he fought off the bike, but that Roche is also as fast as he ever was, in a way that makes him seem almost relieved. It might be nothing, but it also might be that Roche was beginning to doubt his skills (reasonably he should have already noticed the first hints of degradation in Remake, given his hair was already losing color)

In fact, Roche's whole deal of chasing Cloud around desperately might also at least in part be due to him being aware he doesn't have so much time left and he'll better do his dueling while he can

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Day 4: Possession

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squall leonhart » swooping into action

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Amaterasu, now is the time. We have never needed your power more.

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What do you say, friend? Shall we entertain the crowd!?

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Behold... puffball Amaterasu

(Canine Warrior Chi karmic transformer)

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Final Fantasy VIII (1999) ↠ Timber

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the point of art is not to be great but to make it transparently obvious that there is something wrong with you

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Okamiii

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Drawing them again

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O-kameevee. Man, that joke doesn't carry right over text.

O-kameevee!

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𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝟰: 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻

"You're playing a dangerous game there, Love. Pray you don't get burned." Inspired by a scene from the fanfic "Fractured Bloodline".

I've seen a lot of fanarts of Grima possessive of Chrom, but almost never of Fell Chrom possessive of Robin.

Then I remembered this story and thought I should draw it for this day. 👀 😈

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Hey, Snowball!

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say cheese!!!

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hi everyone! the developer of the website I host Explorerz on is having a hard time covering his monthly costs. i think Comicfury is such a wonderful space for comics and one of the few remaining websites that values art over predatory profiteering. Kyo makes it a point to keep the game level - ads are opt-in, custom css for comics is available to everyone, etc. if you can spare a couple bucks each month (the lowest tier is $3 which shakes up to 36 dollars a year), you’d be preserving one of bastions of creator-centered webcomic culture and helping it continue its growth!

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Ōkami prototype A (2004) | Ōkami Sequel (2024)

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Arginana

(In QDS, Jinana’s Ushas has long golden hair she uses to fight and her colour scheme is gold. Also Argilla uses gravitation, and is described to control it by invoking a black sphere)