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[hoofpeet]

Dinnar <3

[thatonesongyouretryingtoremember]

underrated adorable detail is that whenever anything, Edwin is handing shit to Charles. And he takes it, no question, but he is surprised every time without failure.

Opening package? hand him knife and empty box. sorting mail? hand him envelopes. Splitting groups? hand him lantern. don't even say words just hand him ítem.

[hiroshotreplica]

kaori and john the siblings ever. or something (+some agent stuff)

[pine-needle-shuffle]

Just out and about

[danonators]

babygrill

[catboygirljoker]

in a recent ask game i got a question about something xigbar has done that i cant get over. well. this is my answer.

[Video ID: A cutscene from 358/2 Days for DS, with high-resolution models. Roxas unsummons his keyblade and says, "Mission accomplished. Xigbar looks up and says, "Or is it?" Roxas says "Huh? Oh, come on, quit playing ar—" Xigbar shoves Roxas away, then jumps out of frame to avoid an attack by an off-screen Heartless. Roxas says, "Whoa!" end ID.]

this one moment is so important to how i think about Xigbar's characterization, in this game, in every game, that i feel the need to. write an entire essay about it lmao

The context here is that Roxas is sent to rendezvous with Xigbar in Halloweentown to destroy a giant Heartless. Just before a fight with a distinctly medium-sized Heartless, Roxas says, "Looks giant enough to me!" and Xigbar laughs and says, "Right. Just keep your head on straight." This cutscene immediately follows that.

After the actual boss fight, Roxas is mad that Xigbar let him think the other Heartless was their target, and Xigbar's like "well you learned a valuable lesson, and I did tell you to keep your head on straight." So there's the moral of the story. Roxas nearly got hurt because he jumped to conclusions and let his guard down.

But if that was the point...why did Xigbar shove Roxas out of the way of the attack, evidently narrowly avoiding getting hit himself? If the story of the mission was Roxas learning this lesson, wouldn't it be scarier and more dramatic if he'd gotten hurt? If Xigbar wanted to show Roxas some tough love, wouldnt he have let Roxas get hurt? What is the game trying to communicate about Xigbar in this scene?

It's not that it'd be tonally inappropriate; the game is absolutely willing to have other characters directly hurt Roxas in order to teach him things. In Lexaeus's mission, when he teaches Roxas about Limit Breaks, he seriously hurts Roxas to get his health low enough to use a Limit Break. At the end of that mission, Lexaeus tells Roxas that the only person he can trust is himself—I think implying that this was another thing he was trying to teach Roxas when he hurt him. Not to mention the several characters who arguably treat Roxas worse. The game doesn't pull its punches when it comes to characters being cruel to him.

It's not like it'd be out of character for Xigbar to stand by and watch, either! Obviously in the broad scope of his character throughout the series, and also in this game specifically. Earlier in the story, he absolutely knows that Axel is going to survive his mission at Castle Oblivion—both from how he talks about it and from his secret reports. When Roxas assumes Axel is dead, Xigbar reminds him once or twice not to jump to conclusions, but after that, not only does he let Roxas believe that Axel is dead, he makes fun of Roxas for it—he tells him it doesn't matter if people died, says things are quieter with fewer people around. He's certainly willing to let Roxas get hurt.

I guess you could argue that maybe Xigbar needs Roxas alive for The Plan, either Xehanort's or the MoM's, but...this mission occurs less than a month before Xemnas says that it doesn't matter whether Roxas or Xion lives. Roxas isn't Ventus; he isn't himself a necessary part of the MoM's plan. He's also not Sora, and in fact him dying would probably just wake up Sora sooner. It doesn't seem like there'd be a pragmatic reason for Xigbar to risk his hide to save Roxas's.

So we're just left with this...thing. This one moment where Xigbar puts himself in direct danger to keep Roxas from getting hurt by his own dumbassery, for seemingly no reason. There are other little moments in this game that can be read as sincere attempts at support or encouragement of Roxas or Xion, but a lot of the time he comes across as, like, condescendingly overfamiliar, more annoying than genuinely supportive. There is no other moment that reads this much like an act of altruism and just an act of altruism.

The people who made this game made an intentional choice here. And I think a lot about what the scene might be meant to communicate.

...And then in BbS and 3 he goes back to seeming like a complete fucking jackass. But considering what we learn about Luxu later in the series—about his motivations, what he used to be like, what he's been through—I don't think this is an isolated out-of-character incident. It's just like...this one short glimpse through a crack in the facade, a hint that there is a lot more depth to him than we realize. What's in there, old man!!

ugghghgh his characterization in this game is so fascinating to me. getting to see him in a completely different context. the only time we see him interact with a teenager who he's allied with outside of Days is in 3. and that also occupies my brain day and night.

another very specific, intentional moment. the camera brings attention to it. what does it mean what does it all mean.....................

anyway. evil little league coach. my mind it swirls and spins.

[dontfindmeimscared]

theres like nothing for this au but this made me laugh

[vamprisms]

on westeros tumblr helaena and alys would screenshot everything cringe aemond says on his targaryen exceptionalism discourse blog and put the water filter over it

[crowinthornes]

Scrappy little Grian from @mambodork 's buttercup hoa au.

I've decided to try and stop being scared of trying to make art just because I think I'm bad at it. So expect more doodles in the future :)

[glaciers-blorbo-purgatory]

OH ALSO since the comic is now done

have a Xenon ref update!!!

[gemharvest]

So give them blood, blood, gallons of the stuff Give them all that they can drink, and it will never be enough

Goretober 2024, Day 1: (Auto-)Cannibalism

[bludraws094]

he eepy :3

this took me so fucking long

my arms hurt

please reblog bcus i did not spend five and a half hours on this for no reason

[thatonesongyouretryingtoremember]

After Esther dismembered Monty, and gave him a life that theoretically he could do anything with, he did what she asked.

After Esther killed Monty, he flew back to her side.

To Esther, he is a loyal servant. To Monty, she is everything he knows.

[rumblemodels]

Can we get just the spoon from a Kadabra or Alakazam?

is there any reason you could possibly want this

[ladyeyrewrites]

DR WHO AU ?!?!? 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

Why thank you for asking, lovely @typicalopposite

I'm not entirely sure where I'm taking this one yet. It'll probably end up being fairly episodic chapters of Time Lord!Bobby and Companion!Athena travelling together with the rest of the 118 making guest appearances here and there.

Here are some snippets I've posted from Bobby's POV: here and here and here

And here's some brand new Athena POV:

Sergeant Athena Grant of the LAPD was having a day. First, her husband had come out to her children and it had not gone well. Then she’d had a series of calls that were bizarre in the most inane ways from an armed and dangerous rooster to a baby flushed down a toilet, culminating in a call out to a department store where someone had called in a disturbance.  Something about a bunch of idiots dressed up as shop mannequins running around, wrecking havoc.  Sounded like some BS that she was getting too old for.