#[support] soren

[jade-of-mourning]

i love your art so much! the style is so eye catching!

if you feel inspired, do you think you could do a doodle of soren and rayla sparring?

auhsdghaskhjd you're too sweet <333 this is the summer of me trying to draw more LOL… anatomy's kinda wonky though bc idk how swords work rip

[pillow-boi]

My piece for ikesoren zine! Thank you sm for having me on board, I was delighted to draw for my favorite fire emblem ever 🥺💕 (1/2) ✨Leftovers sales up on 4/20 @ikesorenzine

[rayllurn]

Soren and Hat

Bonus:

[one-awesome-beetle]

[stuck-in-jelly]

Actually did Soren even have permission to pick up Corvus?

All Ezran said was to go find Zubeia and for him and Zym to keep each other safe, no where did he even imply the idea grabbing Corvus.

Corvus was fresh out of crutches, probably still on bedrest considering how he struggled to keep with with Soren and hurt his leg trying to vault over a tree root.

That man did NOT tell Amaya and Gren that he was leaving he snuck onto the dragon and road off knowing damn well he wasn’t cleared for duty yet.

Do you think Soren got a stern talking to by Amaya afterwards? She was already trying to get Corvus to rest when he was freshly injured I can imagine trying to make him NOT do stuff around camp as soon as the brace came off was hard enough.

Then Mr. Attachment Issues comes riding in with a perfect excuse to ignore bedrest cause what are you gonna do? NOT use your skillset to help locate a missing Queen

[inqua]

another day another tragic baby 😔💚

[zuliuli]

For anyone interested, here's the old draft for a "If Ivor had been there" comic I started and never finished

[naoreco]

I figure it’s worth putting on the Tumblr radar since much of this is current discussion of Niosi is happening on Twitter.

(content warnings for sexual assault, abuse, manipulation, and otherwise taking advantage of people)

On Chris Niosi, and Kyle McCarley’s defense of him:

Recently Chris Niosi (aka Kirbopher), who has admitted to abusing people around him for at least a decade, was cast in Honkai Star Rail as the character Moze. Five years have passed since his public apology, where he addresses some specific callouts from victims to debatable effect, but unfortunately he’s lied about apologizing to all of his victims (1, 2), and the specific apologies he has written are now deleted from his tumblr, calling his efforts into changing for the better into his question. Furthermore, as he has a history of taking advantage of his fans even in his more underground days (1+2, 3), putting him in a situation where he has access to more fans to put him on a pedestal is dangerous. Other users have iterated much of this already on tumblr, where it was already discussed in previous years, so this is just some context.

But I’m here to talk about something related that hasn’t gotten any Tumblr coverage. For example, people here have talked about Griffin Puatu’s reddit post defending him already. But nobody has mentioned Kyle McCarley defending him yet.

On July 19, 2024, in the replies of Moze’s introduction tweet, he had this to say:

He addresses his use of “bad boyfriend” downplaying legitimate abuse later. I don't think it's great but we’ll get to that. However, “the court of public opinion” is a concept that he does stand by, perhaps reinforced by the backlash he received for this. Some of this was vitriolic, given the kind of person he was defending from further criticism, but others did try to reason with him, including some of the above and more as evidence that Niosi isn’t being entirely truthful about his atonement, and overall most responses expressed disbelief and disappointment more than anything else.

Still, he deactivated his account the following day, on July 20, 2024.

Unfortunately, our story doesn’t end there. In the early morning of July 21, 2024, he made an announcement in his Discord server.

So here's the thing about Niosi not being a confirmed sexual abuser or rapist or pedophile. I don't have everything, with this being such an expansive case so this is off what I've found. You know the time he planned to take advantage of his girlfriend at the time while said girlfriend was intoxicated (plus this follow-up where he attempted to cover for himself)? Drunk people cannot consent, especially not when drunk sex is already a hard boundary. Although this technically doesn't make him a rapist, to my knowledge, if you're gonna argue semantics it'll just sound like "well he didn't ACTUALLY rape someone so it's not as bad". Is it not already terrible that he tried to and still downplayed it when called on it? Besides, as mentioned in Lighty's testimony linked above, he's let other in his sphere groom minors under his watchful eye, and his other ex Audrey had things to say about how he weaponized sexual favors too. If someone actually has more on a history of sexual abuse and pedophilia, though, please bring it to my attention. I'll add it to this post.

Either way, we don't know what he knows. At best, Kyle has a very incomplete picture of the situation, and at worst he does have a complete picture and he just doesn’t think it’s valid or up-to-date criticism. The person who first brought this to people's attention on Twitter also mentioned that her messages in the server were being deleted when she spoke up to provide evidence, so for someone who welcomes others to share evidence how open he actually is to it is questionable. (UPDATE: There's more to this part of the story but we'll get to it in a future update.) His final message a couple of hours from these just solidifies it.

Having joined the server myself to see, around the time of the announcements seems to have been scrubbed clean, but there is some current discussion of the topic as of this post. Furthermore, someone there has stated that they're compiling sources to send his way to give him a better understanding of the situation (even if they're not sure if he still wants to talk about this), so maybe this will finally get him to reconsider his stance! Only time will tell.

Overall, though, I stand by my point that if Niosi makes a living, it should be somewhere far away from the public eye. Don't give him a platform to find new fans to take advantage of. Don't give his victims the opportunity to be retraumatized whenever they start a new game of show. He's been given more than enough chances. It's time to turn over a new leaf instead of digging his heels into the ground.

Still, I don't know if Kyle will change his mind at this point. I want him to - I tried, back when his Twitter was still up - but even at this stage he's doubled down on a situation he knows he might not have the full story on and I'm not sure if I can trust that. For any other fans, give this some thought - keep an eye out for any future developments if you still want to have faith in him, move on from him if you can't stand it. I just want him to at least hold his friend accountable instead of trying to shield him from the lasting consequences of his own actions.

(I'll be linking future updates here: #1, #2 and #3 for now.)

[thousand-winters]

Seeing people hating Soren for hating the laguz is wild because. That's the point!!! He suffered so much and he became bigoted because his life was horrific and that's the point!!! Because even then he learns and he grows and that's literally part of the point!!!

Like I don't know how to tell you, but something amazing about Tellius is how they show you racism being born out of very different experiences and still showing it's bad. Jill, who was raised with those ideas. Soren, who thinks like that because of his own pain. Shinon, who's kinda just an asshole. It's never framed as something good. With Jill and Soren we see them learning and growing and changing, no longer judging others for that.

It's called being able to tell a story with nuance, being able to show characters who are the good guys and still have flaws, really bad ones, and not getting excused for them, so they have to learn and grow and change.

And it's not easy but that's the point!!!

[ivors-potion]

THEYRE HERE!! Go get your very own minecraft story mode charms and stickers!! Very soon I’ll be releasing batch number two including:

Radar

Stella

Gil

Maya

Xara

Gabriel

They should be up next week as pre-orders!

[jl-x-lo]

Alsa 🤍 who else loves the maulers?

[tategaminu]

[fernaldoishere]

nearly 5 am i cannot sleep all i can think about is sorvus... it's so over for me im too brainrotted with the homosexuals

[evecallum]

None of you understands my plight, how will Soren and Terry interact?

[nartml]

Trust and believe that it ain't gonna be pretty if season seven comes and anything touches my baby Soren or Corvus or Amaya or Janai or Gren or Rayla or Callum or Ezran or

[fletching-scar]

🎄

// lets make it awkward

He'd come to this party to get drunk and steal knick-knacks, and, well. Two for two. He had a nasty red wine headache and a little porcelain pegasus tucked into the bottom of his quiver. The details are done in gold paint. He daydreams about tossing the thing off the wyvern launch.

But wait. Shit. Nobody saw him do that, right?

Fuck. There was Soren. Jumped-up know-it-all little brat.

Shinon stares, his brow furrowing deep as a mountain crevasse. He scuttles drunkenly aside, into an archway where some stupid... decorative weed is hung.

Soren didn't see that, right?