#// OR calling him edgy

[kurohaai]

can't believe he just yoinked her like a literal kitten like that

[bread-that-draws]

Flowey’s so funny and has me so fucked up like he’s a talking flower. He tries to kill you upon your first interaction. He is ten years old. He is damaged beyond repair. He’s a flower named Flowey. He’s become friends with every single character. He’s killed all of them countless times. He knows everything about everyone. He doesn’t care anymore. He takes care of his mom when she can’t take care of herself. He’s killed her before. He doesn’t care if you kill her. He thinks she’s trying to replace him. He just wants to be himself again. He wants to destroy everything. He hates you. You’re the only one who understands him. He wants his best friend back. He’s terrified of them. He believes in kill or be killed because he died by giving mercy to the wrong person. He believes himself to be the wrong person. He doesn’t understand when you show him that kindness he showed others, even when you know he could kill you for it. He’s tried every route. He asks you if you have anything better to do when you try to do the same. He’s a direct reflection of the player. He’s a fucking talking flower named flowey and his only voice line is by Ronald McDonald and his officially licensed plush does a little dance for you

[vigilskeep]

part of me really wants to play a lolth-sworn drow just because i think going ‘all of you need to quit your gods. except me im fine’ is a really funny ongoing bit when tav doesn’t get their own personal quest

[hallowshumour]

Doodle of my edgy ass rainbow dash kinsona, Storm Chase. 🌈🌩💥🎠

[chessb0r3d]

i cracked the code.

[daddy-treville]

I miss my wife (Joel Hammond from Santa Clarita Diet) so much…

[moondove330]

'brokeback titanic'

[kasel-the-mightless]

TW: Blood (probably. I don't think there's enough blood to fill a trigger warning, but it's still there, so yeah. Let it be)

TA-dah! I'm back!! I had a mental breakdance all month — and also moving from one city to another, a small art block, coffins, I still had to go to my relatives for the holidays —BUT I'M BACK!!

Sometimes I am consumed with shame, because, instead of full-fledged drawings, I draw 15468 sketches a day based on cringy crunchy characters that only me and 1.5 other people on the entire Internet like— But then I remember that life is what it is, and nothing more. And I choose to live cringy, but freely

Some sentences probably contain grammatical and syntax errors due to my poor translation, for which I apologize in advance. In my defense, I will say: while working on the text, I really wanted to just finish the work and go to sleep :(

I didn't change Adam's design too much, just changed the shape of the sleeves and added more elements to connect her with the rest of the exorcist squad. Y'all'know...Feather collar, dark-colored gloves with a light stripe, boots matching the color of the 'her boys' uniform... The latter is not visible, but it is there

Version with less text and no white gradient

[computerram]

finally started BG3 👍

[haze-acnh]

pretty quiet night coming down the mountain on Polybius.... 🏕🌌🌿✨️🌱🌃🌴

[spyres-moved]

op turned off rbs but is this about that dark past fangame that everyone is now lauding as basically pre-canon explorers despite it literally being just a fangame that also happens to be extremely racist with some of its messages

[afterartist]

Dumb little WIP shots from an animatic I’m making cause I recently got a few of my friends into SolarBalls and I need to express my adoration for this fandom somehow-

[spow-ed]

Ykw I’ll just ask this now otherwise it’d never be done

HEY!!!! WRITERS OF THIS FANDOM!!!!! How do you write/characterize Whole?

Or more accurately how would you do so to make it not leave a bad taste? (This is especially aimed at those who write Harmonia and Whole as different characters but those who don’t can also answer.)

Im planning to finally start an au for this fandom but I need to learn how to characterize them accurately so I don’t fuck it up, and that would be especially hard for whole who’s barely a character in the first place.

[ediyo-15]

to be or not to be

[butwhatifidothis]

Do people really not see the inherent disconnect of the claim that Houses Claude is genuinely an amoral opportunist when his dream is to break down barriers to foster unity and peace? Like, is there not a fundamental incompatibility in having a desire for everyone to get along yet being a backstabber that throws people under the bus for their own benefit? From a personality/character standpoint, all that does is make Claude look like a ginormous ignorant hypocrite, and an idiot even though he's supposed to be smart. Because if his end goal is to create a diverse and harmonious community, how is he going to bring people together if he constantly betrays every side? And from a writing perspective, it makes no sense to have a character's actions and goals be completely contradictory and never address it.

Also for someone who is amoral, it sure is interesting in Balthus' Classroom QA Part 2 that Claude likes "ensure the fewest casualties" and dislikes "do anything to eradicate the enemy" when the question was "the war has been dragging for long so let's end it quickly". It's kinda like he has some principles or something.

Like, the idea of Claude being an untrustworthy backstabber who opportunistically takes advantage of everyone without ever growing close to them is just Hubert minus Lady Edelgard could be an interpretation of his character that aligns with at least his initial showing, or a surface level understanding of him. He calls himself the embodiment of distrust, he never fully opens up to anyone, he can in fact be fairly manipulative and callous; the crumbs are there, for sure.

But it also has to ignore how far he's willing to go to protect his people (putting himself in high danger when he is not sacrificial like, say, Dimitri is), or how he supports others having dreams for themselves (Goddess Tower), or how open he is to criticisms against what he thought (Cyril's support), or how he tries to be there for his friends (Marianne's support), or how he's open-minded enough to listen to people he initially thought needed to be his enemy (Rhea), or how violence is not just not something he considers but is something he actively rejects as a means of getting what he wants (The Alliance Leader's Ambitions, near the end), or how putting the people's lives in danger is something he is adamantly against (as you point out, Balthus' classroom question). A staggering amount of Claude's character has to be deliberately ignored in order to come to the conclusion that he's just a backstabbing opportunist who does anything to get what he wants (who magically gets fixed by Byleth's mere presence), because a backstabbing opportunist who does anything to get what he wants who magically gets fixed by Byleth's mere presence does not describe Claude.

Even if one were to take the game's writing failure of properly presenting Claude tackling racial issues (like never addressing Petra's situation despite having supports with her) you can't really deny that Claude is, in fact, a caring person after taking everything in his character into account. For all his flaws, he never abuses the trust people have in him to the extent that they are actively put in danger, nor is it ever the case that the "doesn't truly tackle racial issues" ever translate to anything so drastic as "which means he'll actively worsen relations between two countries." And, well, yes; you still do have to take into account that his dreams are of bringing people together and disregarding past bad blood. He never stops trying to achieve this dream, and he wants it to come true so badly that he is willing to let other people that he trusts rule Fodlan to work together with him to achieve it, shown in VW and even AM. That means a lot for someone like Claude, who is otherwise pretty slow to trust other people so deeply.

That's not someone who would use Leicester's bad history with Faerghus as fuel to violently invade it. That's not someone who would use Almyra's navy to make it look to Sreng like Faerghus tried to invade it. That's not someone who wants to conquer other nations and make his own come out on top. Those things describe Hopes!Claude, which 3H!Claude is not.

It's like. You know how some 3H's fans see 3H as "Edelgard, Dimitri, and the third guy that justifies my fave"? How a lot of people in 3H's fandom don't really see Claude as his own character with his own perspective and ideals and beliefs and morals that are unique to him, and only see him as a battering ram to try and knock down one of the other two lords? And so don't really care how he's characterized in other things (like fanfiction, fanart, meta, or in this case spinoff media) because they never really cared about him as his own character? But then get really, really, really defensive when you point out the flaws in their perception of him, saying that you're the one who never understood or liked Claude, because if you did you'd "realize" that he was always [insert vague, bland description that happens to prop up the lord they actually like]?

Yeah that's basically what's going on here. Most people who prefer Claude as their fave lord do not like Hopes!Claude, some of the loudest voices in the JPN Amazon reviews were of people who hated Hopes!Claude and were literally trying to warn Claude/GD fans away from Hopes as a game because of how awful their writing is, while nearly every Hopes!Claude fan that I've seen vastly prefers Edelgard as their fave lord and are - you guessed it! - very defensive when it comes to Claude fans venting their frustrations over Claude's shit-end-of-the-stick treatment he got in Hopes.

So like, yeah. It's less that people aren't directly computing that Claude's ambitions and character don't match how he's depicted in Hopes, but that they just don't care that it doesn't since 1) it justifies their fave and 2) they never really gave a shit about Claude anyway

[turnaboutfix]

The only thing that's a bummer about AAI2 finally being localized is that my propaganda for "Eddy" to be the Western fandom equivalent of "Mi-chan" (what the Japanese fandom almost always refers to Edgeworth as) is ruined

That being said, Eddie Fender is a fabulous name for Ray and I can't wait to find out what the other AAI2 character's names are.