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The thing abt 4kids dubs is that i do not watch it to enjoy them, straightforwardly. I watch it as a trial. It’s like how a monk or whatever undergoes a difficult task to further their faith or something or the other. And sometimes there’s funny enough moments to justify this
#‘’hows it going meta knight?’’ ‘’very badly’’#the duelist kingdom food scene#Kaiba CEO crushing innocent souls every day quote#the entire fufkinggg art episode of kirby was a transcendent experience. it was not good. but holy shit#Con stop yapping
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He’s a work in progress still but I wanted to share the first pass of his completed look so badly X)
I’ve had Sir Meteor in progress since August 2023, if you want to see the progress it will be under the read more!
Sir Meteor’s story starts with my fist kirby OC I made, Terra Knight! I won’t talk about him too much except that I knew from early on he had a older brother. TK originally has a skull mask in his very early concepts, but then I learned Axe Knight existed, and they looked too similar. I shelved the concept for a while until I had more ideas.
In August 2023, I started to sketch out allosaurus skulls because I had wanted to revisit the concept and thought maybe I would redesign Terra Knight to have a dinosaur skull mask. It did not happen, but that planted the seed.
In November, I had been struck with inspiration and started doodling. The name is very important to the lore of my OCs and is very deliberate, so once I figured out the name for Sir Meteor, a lot of elements fell into place instantly!!
This is the first time I gave Meteor colors, and I also put him next to his siblings so they would look cohesive. Me mentioning how he doesn’t even have shoes yet is foreshadowing.
In the following day, I sketched him more to get a feeling for his design!!
The most notable thing about this is probably 1.) here I cemented the twin-tail cape because it looks like the tail of a comet and 2.) since it looked like a comet, I wanted the pauldron to include a star somehow
Also fun fact!!! The shape of his horns is directly inspired by Triceratops horns!!
Which led to the designing of his pauldrons later in November!
I ended up combining elements of the first and third design because together they would look like shooting stars!
This is also when I decided on giving him the four pointed star blushing! Around this time I posted a sketch of Meta Knight with star blushes and I wanted to include more fun blush shapes. Also the four pointed star is a subtle Galacta Knight reference! Sir Meteor is genuinely old, prehistoric even, and he comes from that time period, and I wanted the star shapes to reflect that
After this I was stuck. I was extremely stuck and could not figure out how to design his shoes. Since everything else was so themed, it had to mean the shoes had to match as well. I wanted to keep the prehistoric/star themes, going strong. I tried a few times to give him plain armor but it did not look correct at all!
I took a few months to think about it. Another important thing is that whatever shoe I drew had to look good and cohesive with AND without his skull mask. It was hard to balance but yesterday (21 February) I began to cook.
On the sketch page, you can see how the thought process evolved from the top of the page downwards. You can see the “haha drawing smiles with sharp teeth- oh wait a minute hold on” happen in real time.
On the page on the right, is when I finally designed his shoes!!! THE EVIL IS DEFEATED!!!!
This character is so heavily themed and I thought about it so much. So. Much. If anyone actually read this breakdown you deserve a gold star thank you for listening to my insane, several month long thought process. I’m so proud of him for a reason. Now I need to finalize the colors and stuff but for now enjoy!
EDIT: while making Meteor’s reference, i also went through a LOT of altered color pallets.
#my art#snappy’s art tag#snappy’s WIP tag#kirby#kirby oc#kirby oc: sir meteor#THIS ISNT EVEN HIS BACKSTORY#AND YET THERE IS SO MUCH DETAIL
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Let's talk about Mecha Knight
Well, well, well, would you look at the time. It's "me writing too much about Kirby" 'o clock ! And it seems like Mecha Knight will be the topic.
So, the reason I am writting this is that I see more and more people say that Mecha Knight is an overused subject and it doesn't deserve to have so much angsty fics, art, etc. I strongly disagree and I will explain why. I know people won't change their mind with a single, random rant, but I just want to share my opinion on the matter. With that in mind, here I go, describing how the whole Mecha Knight thing is indeed messed up.
First I want to objectively describe the situation. So the Haltman Company invades popstar, starts mechanising everything and everyone. Meta Knight has the Halberd blown up, and we don't hear about him untill world 4. We discover that he had tried to fight the corporation by himself, then failed and was captured. Then he was turned into a cyborg forced by mind control to work for the guys who are actively destroying what he was trying to save against his own will, and forced to try killing one of his friends/rival twice, before being freed and helping the heroes.
I think we can all agree that this a bad thing to happen to anyone. Kidnapping, enslaving and modifying someone without consent is pretty horrible, and there is no denying that. Everyone who has basic ethics and empathy would know that. So logically, people sympathise with Meta Knight, and they can show it by imagining what it must have felt like for him trough art.
So, why the heck would some people try arguing why it actually was'nt that bad and artists should stop "milking angst" out of this ?!
Here's their argument ; Some have said that Meta could'nt have been badly hurt, as he is seen seemingly fine after fighting Haltman. As if being fine physically means you are fine mentally. If you were mechanised, do you think you would'nt feel at least a little bad ? Is it wrong to think the victim of this situation may keep some scarring memories ? Or is it that you think Meta Knight having trauma is contradictory to his character and he should'nt be allowed to ?
Well, in fact, if you look back at his personality, having trauma out of being Mecha Knight make perfect sense as it goes against his most defining trait ; stenght.
Normally he is very powerfull, physically, mentally and politically. His character practically revolves around power ( he is often shown trying to be more powerfull ). So imagine what it must be like, having all that strenght completly taken away from you and used by his ennemies against his allies. How it must feel to go from leader to slave. Not being able to move an inch by yourself while your body moves on its own. And it's only made worse by how in every other instance of him being posessed, he was shown to have tryied resisting evil influence. Even in RoMK he was revolting against lazinness. Here, the only clue we have about him trying to resist was the title of his battle theme, commonly known as "inner struggle". But the fact you can't even see that in game prooves how powerless he was, how vain his resistance was.
Even if having been turned into a robot did'nt disturb him, not being able to do anything against it definitly could have made him question himself. It could have shattered his ego and confidance in his abilities. It make perfect sense.
And, well, being turned into a cyborg must have been terrifying anyways. We don't know how mechanisation actually worked, but according to the number of screws in the mechanised people's design, how we only see him after a while and Kumazaki's habit of impliying terrifying stuff going on behind the scenes, it's understandable to assume it was painfull. And it must also suck to be treated as an actual object.
So, yeah, the situation was indeed pretty fucking bad, and seeing people trying to say it’s not unnerves me. I think they either are Meta Knight fans who feel like him being allowed to feel the slightest of insecurities would make him weak, MetaSusie fans who are trying to defend her actions by minimilizing them or just fan that have enough to see it over so many other topics. Like, bro, feel free to make your own art instead of complaining. Or potentially write countless paragraphs to share your opinions like I do ( just kidding, it’s actually pretty anoying ).
Basically, it's normal to see angsty art and fics of an event that was objectively pretty horrible and complaining about it is weird.
Either way, if you’ve read trough all this, congratulation. Must have been long. Thank you for your time and patience, and I hope you have a wonderfull day.
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(about the wildly inconsistent line) I understand you are annoyed with the complaints, hopefully you don't mind my two cents on this line.
Personally my issue with this line is well, I feel like the fanbase kinda ruined things like people complained about 2010's and calling it "meta era" (a name that I find really nonsensical) and yet glaze on Ian Flynn's writings when he does meta stuff like "sonic cycle" and "project remaster" just to name a few.
So when this line comes, I guess a part of me feels a bit throw out of immersion lmao.
Of course Flynn being the writer of frontiers certainly didn't help and thus feels like a doomer in my head.
Anyway these are my thoughts, feel free to disagree with me and sorry if I accidentally said something that might annoy you
have a nice day/evening.
I don't see how the fan base being a bunch of morons is somehow a problem with the game.
Tails ISN'T inconsistent. So the complaint about the line being some "meta acknowledgement" of Tails' bad writing doesn't make any sense. Because Tails isn't and hasn't been badly written in any Sonic game. The fact that MORONS think he was, and then those MORONS decided to act like some out of context line of dialog was some kind of acknowledgement of support to them isn't a problem with the game.
Those same MORONS also think that the game was some kind of redemption narrative for Eggmans character, which EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF OFFICIAL SONIC MEDIA PRODUCER SINCE has IRREFUTABLY demonstrated to be an incorrect interpretation. And those same MORONS also think the game "fixed" Sonic and got him "back on track" when Sonic wasn't written any differently in Frontiers than he was written in Forces or Lost World or Colors or Black Knight before that. So I don't see how "yeah well a bunch of MORONS were being MORONIC about the series" is somehow a valid criticism of the line itself or the game in general.
If I let what a bunch of MORONS think about Sonic influence my own opinion about Sonic, then I wouldn't enjoy literally anything about Sonic whatsoever. Because MORONS are MORONIC about literally everything regarding the franchise. Why do you give a shit what MORONS think? Why are you letting the voice of MORONS ring in your head while playing Sonic Frontiers? (You have actually PLAYED THE GAME, right?)
I have been very public that I don't believe Ian Flynn had much if anything to do with the way Frontiers was written. Based on everything he and Sonic Team staff members have said about it, and based on the comparison of quality between the games writing and the writing of the comics which Flynn has near infinite creative control over in comparison, it pretty much sounds like Ian Flynn wrote what Sonic Team told him to write. Everything that is in the game every line of dialog of the main story cutscenes is in there because Sonic Team wanted it in the game. I find the way both HATERS and PRAISERS of Sonic Frontiers act like this is Ian Flynn's game to be incredibly disrespectful towards Sonic Team and it frustrates me to no end.
You really think that Sonic Team had a line written and put into the game, and then rigged animated and voice directed the scene where that line was said, that was included to be some kind of dig against Tails's handling as a character BY Sonic Team in previous games? In a scene that was THREE CUTSCENES REMOVED from THIS scene, wherein they directly acknowledge and discuss the way Tails' character was written in Sonic Forces?
If you want to suggest that the "wildly inconsistent" line was some kind of wink and a nod to the audience about Tails's previous writing, then are you also then going to agree that THIS line of dialog is a direct CONFRONTATION of people's complaints about the "Sonic Help Me" scene from Forces? Am I allowed to say that this line of dialog is Tails looking at the camera and saying "I WAS EMOTIONALLY TRAUMATIZED BY SONIC BEING SUPPOSEDLY KILLED BY INFINITE RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY EYES AND THAT'S WHY I COWERED FROM CHAOS 0 YOU ILLITERATE FUCKS"? If YOU'RE allowed to act like the "wildly inconsistent" line is some kind of statement to the audience about the franchises writing quality, then that means you will happily and readily accept my interpretation of THIS line and how it's telling everyone who criticized Tails in Sonic Forces to shut the fuck up and fuck off, right?
Frankly I don't care what people's reasoning is for why they think Tails saying "then I'm wildly inconsistent" is bad. They're wrong. Source: I played the fucking game and you didn't. End of discussion.
#sonic frontiers#tails#miles tails prower#miles prower#sonic#sonic the hedgehog#ian flynn#sonic team
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A guide on writing YamiChar (or, how I do it, at least)
I've tried to write this meta over and over and over, trying to put all my thoughts in order, (below is my best attempt at it) but the more I try to explain how I do them, the more I realise that writing YamiChar well really just comes down to making sure that they're their own separate characters, with their own motivations and conflicts and lives outside each other. Yami needs to give a damn and Charlotte needs to not be obsessed with him. That's it.
Anyway. The meta.
First things first, the most important part of writing them (and why it so often falls short in canon) is that they both have to care about each other. Exactly how this looks can vary depending on the plot of your fic, but you cannot have Yami not caring about Charlotte in some way. The biggest reason this ship calls short in canon is because Yami doesn't really seem to give a damn about her, when he is all Charlotte's internal monologue can really focus on. She gets possessed and he doesn't seem to give a damn. After the initial fight, he doesn't even think about her, even while he's running around with Charla. Comparatively, when Yami gets kidnapped, she can't think about anything else.
Personally, I tone down Charlotte's crush. Or at least how she expresses it outwardly. Her running away from Yami screaming isn't funny, it isn't cute and it isn't helping her in any way. It's just embarrassing for her and makes her look incompetent. This woman is a Magic Knight Captain. She has a reputation to think about, people her being incompetent will reflect badly on. She is the face of the Blue Rose Knights, if people lose respect for her, then they're likely to start losing respect for her squad and that just makes their job harder than it needs to be. Especially considering the fact that, the world of Black Clover, just like our own, seems to elevate men's accomplishments above women's. So, yes. Charlotte's panicked screaming needs to go.
This isn't to say that she can't get embarrassed or flustered or that she can't panic, Charlotte is still a dramatic person at the end of the day, but those sorts of emotions are far more likely to be expressed in private, or only around people she can trust. She is not going to run screaming into a room full of strangers making a fool of herself.
On Yami's side of things, I tend to go with him not quite realising exactly what he's feeling. he has no real reason to believe what he's reading in her ki, or what people are telling him she feels. He's a foreigner. People like Nozel have made it quite clear that he isn't really welcome. Why would he think that the woman who could have literally anyone she wanted would want him?
Yami acts like a big, confident guy, but there's a lot of childhood trauma buried under all the bravado. He jokes about being a soft sensitive princess, but there's truth to it. His love interest has to be willing to look under the big macho man facade and not many people do.
So. We've got two people with a whole host of childhood trauma hiding their real selves from the world. How do we turn that into a relationship? You give them something to connect over. For these two, they're in a very unique position to understand each other in a way nobody else really can. They've both been shunned for things they can't control. They've both had people terrified of their magic. They've both had countless doors slammed in their faces. They've both dealt with people judging them on appearance alone. They've both been placed on a pedestal with a kingdom that criticises their every move. There's a lot of common ground for them to bond over.
Importantly, they aren't fixing each other. Sure, they learn from each other, but Yami doesn't suddenly become a perfect gentleman, Charlotte doesn't lose her sharp tongue or general attitude towards men. They do not suddenly become a lovey-dovey mess. They are both people who would rather ignore their feelings and leave it to deal with another time, preferably never. "That's Future Yami's problem" ring any bells? Which, I suppose, is better than Charlotte just diving straight into denial. Anyway. My point is, their romance looks like friendly teasing and unspoken trust, "I've got your back" and meaning it, the calm confidence that comes with knowing you're stronger together and capable of utterly wrecking anyone that tries to fight you.
Also, if anyone is going to retire to raise the kids, it's Yami.
TL;DR write them the same way you would if they were best friends but with more flirting.
#black clover#charlotte roselei#yami sukehiro#yamichar#my writing#writing guide#black clover meta#I guess
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Meta Knight and King Dedede have caught a cold because of the winter season! It is now up to their mirror counterparts to replace them in their roles of Santa. How badly do you think they'll ruin their reputations?
good question!
burade is, simply put, not a jolly guy. he is the opposite of a sandy claws. in his natural state (i.e. not being possessed) he is thoroughly stoic and unsettling and as serious as a heart attack. but even if he isn’t the best man for the job, he is going to be nothing if not goddamned committed to delivering these presents.
dameta is, uh, a lot less dedicated, to say so the very least. he’s not taking any of this shit seriously. he’s shoveling cookies by the plateful into burade’s stomach mouth because he hates sugar. he’s stealing Waddle High fashion dolls out of the sack and reconfiguring their limbs into fucked up positions. he is giving children bladed weapo- wait, meta knight already does that. hmm.
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Revolutionary girl Utena Characters with DND Classes
Beware: personal opinions and slight RGU spoilers below
Utena is Oath of Devotion/Heroism Paladin.
The easiest class for me to decide. How Utena and her relationship with others clashing with her ideals, and how she defined being a "prince" vs. what a "prince" really was.
In the end, she truly embodies being a Paladin outside the constructs of patriarchy and the manipulation of others.
Anthy is either Trickery Domain Cleric, Circle of the Shepard Druid, Alchemist Artificer, Swarm Keeper Ranger, or a blend of all four.
The fact Anthy could fit so many builds is a testament of her multi-layered character. Frankly, I can see her multiclassing all four and somehow getting beyond level 20.
Dios is Path of Devotion/Heroism-> Oathbreaker Paladin, and Akio is Hexblade Patron.
Self-explanatory here and drawing parallels between Dios and Utena. Paladins and Warlocks are often seen as foils and opposites, so Dios the Paladin becoming Akio the Warlock Patron makes for delicious irony and symbolism.
Everyone who has the Rose Seal is part Warlock Hexblade.
Student Council:
Touga is Mastermind Rogue.
Sneaky and manipulative, with high charisma and underhanded sneak attacks, Touga definitely embodies the rogue archtype.
Saiyonji is Samurai Fighter.
This is mainly from him using Kendo, but Saiyonji would eventually prove himself more honorable than the asshole he started the series out as.
Juri is Battle Master Fighter.
The strongest of the Duelists with a background of fencing, it was a no brainer for Juri. Especially considering Utena never truly defeated her in-series.
Miki is College of Glamor Bard.
While Miki does fit Wizard as well, bards having half-proficiency in everything both shows his studious nature and prodigal mindset.
But the main reason I chose Bard of Glamor is Miki's obsession with re-finding his inspiration AKA his "shinning thing" his tendency towards projection+ Nostalgia Filter+ Madonna Whore Complexing girls.
Nanami is Swashbuckler Rogue+ Path of the Berserker Barbarian.
Barbarian and Rogue have... interesting synergy, while also contradicting one another. Same as Nanami.
Her fighting style and devious nature made me consider Swashbuckler for her first, as well as being something she shared with Touga.
Add in her over-the-top nature and I quickly realized she gives Barbarian vibes as well. Both synergize well in some ways, while clashing in others.
Much like Nanami herself!
Ruka is Echo Knight Fighter.
Originally, he was going to be a Battle Master Fighter like Juri. Then I got an idea: Ruka using his echo to go in his place to Ohtori due to his illness.
Black Rose Duelists:
Everyone who was given a Black Rose becomes part Order of the Profane Soul Blood Hunterincluding Mikage.
Originally, Mikage was going to be a Hexblade Warlock Patron like Akio. But going over his motivations being to kill Anthy and replace her, along with making duelists in his past, I realized he also fit the Blood Hunter Archtype.
Wakaba is Way of Open Hand Monk.
This is mainly from her and Utena's fight (which she all but ripped her friend apart with her bare hands), but Wakaba is a very physical person. Glomping, hugging, piggy-back riding, and she gets in a Get A Hold Of Yourself, Man! Slap on Utena even before their fight.
Kanae is Champion Fighter.
This might seem a strange choice, but hear me out.
I recently read upon a fic (https://archiveofourown.org/works/34018852) and attached meta (http://web.archive.org/web/20200218193829/https://palaceperspective.tumblr.com/post/177107626881/part-three-deer-in-the-works)
that gave the idea and implication of Kanae being the previous Champion Duelist who reached Revolution. She put down her sword and chose to be Akio's Princess... which is why she has her own sword when dueling Utena, and why her strained relationship with Anthy grated on her so badly.
Kozue is College of Satire/Tragedy Bard.
We know Kozue is not as good at piano as Miki, but most of her aspects fit the bard archtype to a t, including the sleeping around.
Both possible colleges are on how she was affected by her brother loving her shadow rather than herself and projecting the person he thought she used to be on others. Her whole situation can be read as satire and/or tragedy.
Shiori is Abberant Mind Sorcerer.
Shiori's sticking point is her massive inferiority complex+ self-loathing which causes her to lash out at others she perceives as pitying her, which is why she is the way she is around Juri.
Sorcerers are born with innate magic, and this represents (to me at least) Shiori's own potential if she were to not define herself by comparison to others, or look down on herself.
Her mind is what is keeping her down... but it could be what eventually frees her.
Keiko is Genie Warlock.
Keiko has the desire to be with Touga and free of Nanami. Two wishes that she wants to be granted, and she can potentially get by being one of Nanami's lackies.
Tsuwabuki is Bladesong Wizard.
Wizards are characterized by studying, and Tsuwabuki spends most of his time studying the "adult" world and Nanami.
If I missed any characters you'd be interested in seeing a dnd class with, let me know!
#revolutionary girl utena#rgu#utena#Shōjo Kakumei Utena#shojo kakumei utena#SKU#utena tenjou#anthy himemiya#akio ohtori#touga kiryuu#kyouichi saionji#juri arisugawa#miki kaoru#nanami kiryuu#ruka tsuchiya#mikage souji#wakaba shinohara#kozue kaoru#shiori takatsuki#kanae ohtori#keiko Sonada#mitsuru tsuwabuki#dnd#dungeons and dragons#d&d#dnd classes#artificer#barbarian#blood hunter#cleric
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There's two things about Dark Meta Knight’s reputation that I just can't understand. One is the Sectonia corruption thing. I just can’t, like, believe it happened that way? (And you know me. I’m usually very open to wild theories.)
It feels to me like suggesting Galacta Knight was responsible for Marx’s mad ambitions because Galacta was that game’s secret boss and also involved with Galactic Nova! (If, however, you happen to legitimately think Galacta Knight was responsible for Marx, please lemme know your HC. I wanna hear 'em!)
The other thing, and I think this mostly surrounds the Sectonia corruption thing(?) is that DMK is some entity of pure evil that's just cosplaying as Meta Knight?
Dark Meta Knight IS Meta Knight's shadow. He’s literally Meta Knight with the limiters taken off. He's not “EVIL” Meta Knight. He is what lurks inside Meta Knight brought to the forefront, whereas all that makes up our Meta Knight is pushed to the background. Heck, Dark Meta Knight probably knows perfectly well how to be chivalrous and heroic and helpful, but he's as interested in that as Meta Knight is in throwing another military coup.
They're both really so much more interesting when you accept that they are mirror images of each other. It's literally built in to the lore!! XD
I have a lot of HC about the Mirror World being in general more brutal and chaotic than the main verse (”brutal” in a Kirby way, of course) and that DMK is mostly a distant, unfriendly, pragmatic veteran of the “stabs first asks questions later” variety. He’s seen his world’s monarch get corrupted by MULTIPLE cosmic horrors and is not even sure if he’s still IN there anymore, meanwhile, the person who was supposed to be his world’s shining star of hope grew weak without the support of his friends, becoming a coward and a sneak (at least when TAM is going on.) Shadow Kirby is unable to stand up to the evil that has been corrupting their world even if they wanted too.
No wonder DMK himself lost to Dark Mind.(1)
That he’s still kind of an aggressive, stabby-person after their world was saved I attribute to “lived this way so long he’s not sure how to stop” syndrome. Do you realize both how cute and how sad it is that he’s only able to (badly) draw his sword in the Wave 2 pic? He’s asked to be creative and he can’t THINK of anything except fighting anymore.
:holds DMK gently:
...Of course then I go and make my DMK mute so he can’t defend himself or express what he’s going through to anyone except Meta Knight. (And the more empathic characters/anyone else they taught their sign language to.) Oops! XD
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(1) I also HC that DMK wasn’t being an idiot when he entered the main verse and attacked Kirby, splitting him into multiple copies. For one, he obviously didn’t split Meta Knight into copies when he attacked HIM, so that mirror refraction thing he does is not a power he has no control over.
I think that he purposefully made 3 extra Kirbys, each equally strong as the first, and lured them into the Mirror World, goading them on further and further, using the mystery of “what happened to Meta Knight.” (Notice how he doesn’t go out of his way to stop Meta Knight from interfering? Nor does he try to kill him once he’s got him trapped in the mirror.)
HIs goal? Dark Mind may have been his “master” but I think he WANTED Kirby to fight Dark Mind. To beat him.
I think his duel with Kirby serves the same purpose as Meta Knight’s duel with Kirby in Adventure. Meta Knight had to know about Nightmare from Dedede, so why did he fight Kirby? To TEST him. DMK did the same thing. “You’re not getting past here unless you prove you can defeat me.” (”Because I couldn’t stop him and if you have to be stronger than me to stand a chance.”)
Frankly, I think the fact that DMK risked death/shattering in that fight makes HIM the mirror world’s hero. Its jerkass hero, but still a hero.
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Top 10 Hellverse characters please! HH + HB!
Hi!
Thank you for this nice ask :) I wanna speak of the series more (I wanna write more metas in general, but it is a super busy time)
Anyway. I listed my fave Hazbin Hotel's characters here.
I think that my top five slightly changed though, as it is now I would say:
Lucifer
Charlie
Vaggie
Angel
Alastor
Basically Vaggie has grown a lot on me <3<3<3
I love how her arc is built in season 1, with episode 3 foreshadowing the reveal of episode 6 and how they were able to convey her past as a child soldier in a way that ties very well with her personality. Moreover, her foiling with Charlie is great.
As for my top five HB's characters...
1 - Fizzarolli
Ooops and Mammon's musical are my two favourite episodes and Fizz is my kind of character, as he manages to have a wonderful and deep arc in a very short time. I love his foiling with Blitz and his relationship with Asmodeus is wonderful. It is a great subversion of the dychotomy between Lust and Love and it embodies the main themes of the series.
2- Blitz and Stolas
A great protagonist and deuteragonist respectively <3 I received an ask on them, so I am gonna go quick here.
Blitz is a great protagonist because he subverts expectations. He is set up as the classical jerk wiht a heart of gold. The asshole who became an asshole because everyone around him treats him badly. This is true in a sense, as it is shown his father neglecting and abusing him... However, we slowly realize he is mostly lonely because he himself pushes his loved ones away and hurts them. The story is sympathetic towards his circumstances, but it doesn't justify nor excuse him and that is very refreshing.
Stolas is a great deuteragonist because he is exactly the same, but opposite to Blitz. He is a royal, whereas Blitz is an IMP. He has a nuclear family, which seems perfect on the surface, but is actually terrible. Blitz instead has a chaotic and dysfunctional found family made of people, who deep down love each other. Both struggle with their relationship with a daughter, but for opposite reasons. Both self-sabotage their relationship, but for opposite reasons. Both idealize the other, but in opposite ways. Stolas sees Blitz as a Knight in Shining Armor. Blitz sees Stolas as a Royal.
In short, they are great.
4 - The Sins
I just love the thought put behind their designs and their thematic resonance. I would love to write about them soon because they are really incredibly made and offer interesting interpretations of their respective vices. Plus they are cool.
5- Loona and Octavia
They are bound to become adoptive sisters! Anyway, I love them and how just like their dads they appear opposites, but are actually the same. Loona has a nice arc, despite appearing less than others, and I like how the story has so far balanced her personal development with her role in Blitz's story. Octavia is mostly there for Stolas, but I like her characterization and the challenge she poses to her father. In general, you can clearly see Vivzie adores father-daughter relatioinship between this and hazbin :''').
If I were to make a top ten list of characters from both series....
Lucifer
Charlie
Vaggie
Fizzarolli/Angel
Alastor/Stoliz
Adam
The Sins
Thank you for the ask!
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things i know about tlt
(i have never read the books or any meta, this is based purely on what shitposts have crossed my dash, but it may contain spoilers)
the main character is different every book. gideon, harrow, nona?
gideon nav:
a fuckboy who loves swords and bullied harrow Very Badly as a child
i think she’s technically a demigod. unclear on how that works but i believe someone yoinked her dad’s jizz? and he’s god?
she died horribly but harrow picked up her consciousness and moved it somewhere else (harrow’s brain)
i have seen a lot of shit where she’s in a white suit and has a gaping hole where her heart should be so like. i don’t think that’s a metaphor but i’m given to understand her physical form is now a ‘tower prince’
harrowhark nonagesimus:
an austistic little rat woman whose hyperfixation is bones
her parents killed themselves? (is that what she was bullied over? not the rat woman thing?)
lobotomized herself, gayly
does... necromancy? i haven’t actually seen anything about that but like. she must, right?
nona:
looks like harrow--are they twins? is nona short for nonagesimus?
her soul is actually the soul of the earth who was stuck in a barbie that god wanted to fuck
she’s a baby & the least toxic mc
other characters:
ianthe is a huge bitch whose right arm is made of gold-plated bones. gideon is insecure about that bc harrow is into bones. ianthe wants to mack on harrow. she sometimes is also a tower prince which like. someone’s gonna angrily make out
ianthe has a much nicer sister(?) (fraternal twin? they’re drawn differently) but i don’t know her name
someone named cam who deserved better & had a very solid partnership until she didn’t
god’s name is john? he’s a bitch & gave his friends amnesia. i think he set up the “houses” as like, enrichment for them. no idea how he begat gideon but there seems to have been a heist about it
very little clue of what the actual plot is. there’s a body in the locked tomb? i think it’s the aforementioned barbie?
there are lyctors and cavaliers. cavalier i assume means knight but lyctor i’m less clear on. like a lector? like a lich? like a lictor (are lyctors then fascist? are they catholic fascist necromancers?) they seem to go in pairs.
someone said ‘yeet’ in the first chapter
that’s literally all i know. people mostly draw the lesbians
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i don’t care about all the bad things 4kids did to kirby they gave us “hey meta knight! how’s it going?” “very badly.”
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Max Haltmann, soup can sports curses, and some of the weirdest foreshadowing in Kirby fanfic history (Meta Knightmare III)
MAJOR SPOILERS FOR META KNIGHTMARE III
In Chapter 12 of The Later Roller Coaster, among other things listed for what the Knights are doing post-RtDL, it's mentioned that Max got his face on the labels of ETHICALLY SOURCED cans of chunky chicken soup. Sound familiar? Because this does involve some real-life sports stuff, crazily enough.
So you know Chunky's Soup? And you know how athletes, especially NFL players, star in ads with them? Well there's a Madden cover-style curse, especially prevalent in the 2000s, where players in those ads would get injured afterwards. (If any 2000s Eagles fans happen to see this, then I am very sorry for triggering any bad memories.) So how does this all tie together to Max?
Well the curse got Max too, and quite badly. And by quite badly, I mean it killed him! No, it wasn't because of him flying out and getting trapped by Star Dream, or Star Dream going beserk and nearly killing Susie before he pushed her out of the way! It was that one soup can sponsership that sealed Max's doom! This is why you shouldn't sell out, kids! (For real, it's actually pretty ironic considering how much of a capitalist maniac post-Star Dream Max is, both in canon and in MKM.)
Yep! I seriously used a blink-and-you'll-miss-it reference to a C-tier sports curse involving soup commercials in a Kirby fic to foreshadow the altered death of Max Haltmann (who btw becomes one of the Meta-Knights here alongside Susie after happily finding her years before Planet Robobot can happen). All I can say is that when I was first thinking up this insane saga in late 2019/early, pre-lockdown 2020, I wouldn't exactly have expected it would come to this (for one, the only sport I was even a bit interested in starting in 2020 was NASCAR, hence the retired racer-turned-ship salesman in MKMI). But hey, in case you haven't noticed yet this decade, at lot can change in four years!
#kirby#meta knightmare fanfic#kirby au#kirby fanfic#max haltmann#president haltmann#max profitt haltmann#chunky's soup#nfl memes?#when i first thought of this i was cackling like an evil madman inside at how subtle this would be#heck when i revealed the foreshadowing to a mutual a while back they were just at a loss of words#btw i love running with the tiny tidbit of max loving fancy chicken food#just you know ETHICALLY SOURCED because this ain't your... idk high school junior-aged brother's haltmann?#this is the new likeable humble heroic family man meta-knight haltmann!#...whose death is only really that much happier in the sense that at least his soul survived this time#man am i already kinda starting to miss him in mkmiv#if it weren't for my slow progress on mkmiv i would be all-in on that haltmann hc post because i love this version of haltmann but aw well
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FIC MASTER POST
I write a lot of AUs, and also just in general. A lot of it is too short, bad, or weird for AO3, so I post them here. For ease of access, I'll put links to every short story here. Those that belong to a greater AU will be sorted under the AU. Miscellanea will be posted just under the fandom. They will be ordered in a mix of size and chronology.
4-26-22 EDIT: I changed my URL, so I changed the links to suit the new URL. If I missed anything and any of the links are still broken, please let me know so I can fix it!
Fic under the cut.
MARVEL
Best Life
A pseudo fusion of the MCU, 1970s-80s Marvel Comics, and completely made up backstories. Exclusively utilizes the lamest superheroes I could find, including Moon Knight.
AO3 Fics [Starring Moon Knight]:
Mens Rea
Good Luck, Jake!
and Letter Column, an AO3 collection of the side stories listed below and more.
Side Stories [Starring other lame people, and sometimes Moon Knight being lame again]:
Dr. Strange Works Retail and Peter Parker Makes a Multiversal Mistake
Ghost Rider visits the Hell DMV
Colleen Wing and the Immortal Iron Fist Participate In A Cultural Exchange Program During The Weirdest Spring Break Ever
Moon Knight: Marc & Steven Meet Jake; Realize Youngest Siblings Are The Worst
Worldbuilding Notes & Meta
Matt Murdock: Ninja Union Organizer & Normal Guy
Assorted Marvel AUs
Moon Knight AU where Jake's the worst teenager you've met in your life; Jake Plays Minecraft, Marc’s a Wine Mom, and Frenchie & Layla Meet a Serial Killer
And companion piece Jake Stays Up Past His Bedtime, Meets His Contemporaries, and Wants a Dog So Fucking Bad.
STAR WARS
Roleswap AU
Roleswap AU set from the Clone Wars era to three years after ROTS. Family is found and lost. Children grow up and become angsty teenagers. Badly parented children become bad parents. Child soldiers become pirates. Local kitten adopted by pack of wolves thinks it's a wolf.
AKA: Rogue Jedi, Rogue Queen, and Rogue Clone go on a space adventure to rescue a dad, cry instead.
AO3 Fics:
Reel to Reel
Less Than Zero
SIDE STORIES:
Cody POV Interquel of Less Than Zero
Obligatory Canon Crossover
Mandalorian Crossover
Book of Boba Fett Crossover
[REDACTED] POV of Clone Liberation
NO CHIP AU: An extensive detail of situations in which, hypothetically, many people would be very bad parents.
Order 66: More Like A Suggestion This Time
Bly: The Perfect Boyfriend?
MORE than Zero?
Torture Adventures of Rex, Supernanny
SW:Rebels Depa Bilaba vs. Cartoon Villain Cody
Fox Takes A Really Nice Nap and what Mace Windu does during the nap
Rex, Padme, and Ahsoka's zany family hijinks
REALLY COOL SHIT THAT OTHER PEOPLE DID THAT I LIKE A LOT
@bobafett's Interquel Outsider POV
@nirelaz SUPER DOPE fanart of Ben & Blanche and another one!
OTHER STAR WARS
Boba Fett's childhood existential crisis
Fox & Leia's Holiday Special - this one is a less depressing AU of my other work Twilight on Owl Creek Bridge.
Obi-Wan is a depressed teen dad
Fishhooks (Jango Fett obtains a mail-order child, regrets it highly when child adopts two million clones)
AOTC Continuation of Fishhooks, just to make Obi-Wan Kenobi confused and miserable
THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES
(oh boy...)
WEB!JON AU
AO3 FICS:
Sucker's Bet
The technical nonsense that started this don't worry about it
SIDE STORIES:
Web!Jon roleplays canon Jon with mixed results
He's Just Not That Into You: Martin & Jon (this one is a sort of pilot to Sucker's Bet, it's not canon)
Not Your Queer-Coded Disney Villain: Annabelle & Jon
Desolation Destroyed My P----: Gertrude & Jon
THE CROW'S FUNERAL AU
Jon gets involved in local politics, regrets it
AU of AU Where Martin prevents the story from happening
Prequel: How Agnes, Gerry, and Jon met
HUMAN RELATIONS AU
Jon and Sasha versus Bad Telenovelas
Semi-Sequel, Never Completed
Jon and Tim versus the Internet
Jon and Jonah versus the Sixties
ROLESWAP AU:
People are bullied. Nobody does any work. Lesbians flourish. And, since being trapped in an infernal contract with a fear demon means that nobody can get ahead, everybody gets even.
Podfic of the entire series by @stonesfromglasshouses
Fear Demon Intern Michael Does Michael Things
Crossover With Canon
OTHER TMA:
Jon's Trapped In Temporal Time Out: A TMA Time-Travelling Tale
Fandom History: pleasedontaskpleasedontask
American AU: PLEASE don't ask
A short post-canon story of Bell, Book, and Candle & No Sin But Ignorance: Daisy Crashes A Date, Fuck You
NARUTO
Most demented roleswap feat. the worst decisions Obito has ever made
Uchiha Family Values
Sasuke and Obito's Post-Massacre Bonding Hour
Kakashi’s a wifeguy, Rin’s a Girlboss, and Itachi gets adopted
FIRE EMBLEM: THREE HOUSES
WEEKENDERS (AKA BYLETH'S CHILD CULT):
AO3 Fic:
Weekenders
SIDE STORIES:
Byleth gets turned into a cat; Felix causes problems on purpose
Byleth and Three Houses Search for Rat People
Worldbuilding Notes & Meta
OC lore and snippet don't look at me
Dimitri and mental illness
OTHER FE3H:
Ashen Wolf Byleth & Teen Dad Yuri
MISCELLANEOUS FANDOMS
Percy Jackson: Percy Jackson meets a Landlord, a Tax Accountant, and a Tree Growing in Brooklyn
Loki: Loki Suffers His Own Personal Hell and Participates in Game Shows
New Wave: Jason Todd vs. Annoyingly Perfect Cheerleader Barbie Stephanie Brown
Omniscent Reader's Viewpoint: YJH Commits the Improbable and Reads a Webnovel
Transcendence AU Nostalgia
This is MY Hero Academia
Chicken on a Raft: Chicken on a Raft
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Hey Meta Knight! How's it going?
Very badly.
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I have a Kirby Heardle Thread on Twitter so sometimes I go off about how much I love this series' music, here’s 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 so far (with a lot more added in lol):
Holy Shit I Fucking Love This Song And Motif. I was gonna say that Inner Struggle is better than Sword of the Surviving Guardian, but that's dumb and inflammatory. I think the two motifs of Vs. Meta Knight and Friend and the Setting Sun represent different things and have their own purposes. The former is underrated AF, but it has a separate use. The Vs. Meta Knight motif from Super Star is used to represent fights with Meta at his lowest or when blinded by his lust for battle. Like in Revenge of MK when he's challenged you to a lost cause battle on his destroyed, rapidly sinking ship (raw af), and Planet Robobot and Epic Yarn (I love discordant piano ^^) where he's struggling against mind control. All of these carry a weight and desperation for him that is so amazingly conveyed by that theme. It’s tense, its dark, and it’s deadly as Meta’s blade. Friend and the Setting Sun is his more general theme now, it kinda represents that after Revenge was a sobering moment for him, as encounters with him after are less antagonistic. It has that perfect “dramatically (maybe even regretfully) riding off into the sunset” vibe, which made it perfect as a credits theme then, and great as a reoccurring motif for Meta Knight now. It represents how he’s likely reflected and grown more understanding ever since that fateful defeat. AAAAND (teehee), it goes with King and the Setting Sun which represents a paralleled moment for Dedede, with more emphasis on the “regretfully” riding off into the sunset. Which is fitting because we’ve seen that while Meta can take defeat badly by going off on rampages, Dedede becomes rather depressed about these things. Friend and the Setting Sun is regretful but steadfast, and King and the Setting Sun is regretful and just downright defeated.
All this to say, there are two battle themes for Meta Knight: Vs. Meta/Inner Struggle for when he's at his worst and deadliest, and Setting Sun for when he's being a friendly rival and continuing a character arc he shares in common with Dedede. Sword of the Surviving Guardian uses the right motif, and it owns, and I respect it. Plus I love the intro, its very jazzy and expressive! The whole song has a great feel of a friendly but still serious battle between two great warriors who have grown and changed for the better a lot since they first met. Star Allies, unfortunately, uses the wrong motif in Friends and the Sound of Intersecting Swords, and it makes me sad. Being horribly possessed by his "wild streak" should land us some Vs. Meta Knight, but instead we have the Setting Sun motif, and I do legit feel it detracts from the potential drama of the fight. (But he is like the 3rd boss out of like,, 13?? so oh well). KF2 got my back tho! The fucking Sworn Partners final battle music mixes like every Meta and Dedede motif! INCLUDING SO MANY TASTY ONES FROM REVENGE OF MK THAT DONT GET USED AND AUGDGSYG ITS SO GOOD!!! When they use the Revenge of MK trill right before you fight them??? I am in the stratosphere! KF2 OST is legendary for all the love they gave Meta Knight and Dedede’s motifs. Using the Halberd and Vs. MK themes in the final battle with Dedede’s, and the Setting Sun motifs together for the credits is a really good example of the way they use them for different aspects of these characters!
#kirby music#meta knight#king dedede#kirby super star#kirby planet robobot#kirby fighters 2#metadedede#shut the heck up#heardle rants#oh dear god i went off hfgs#all of meta's themes are supreme but i just wish vs mk got more love :pensive:
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I love how you draw King dedede! Also, thoughts on the Kirby TV show Kirby right back at you?
Thank you so much! Uhm this might get long so apologies for that The anime was a big part of my childhood and for my love of Kirby so I have a LOT of thoughts on it (also this includes some mild spoilers if anyone wanted to watch it)
I love it quite a lot, actually. It was one of the first mediums that helped me get really into Kirby (KRtDL/Super Star Ultra are probably the first ones to introduce me to Kirby).
I think the anime is very fun and really entertaining, but dear god I hate that it isn't game accurate. With the anime being so easy to access compared to the games (if you either don't have the money to afford one OR if you don't want to be spoiled by watching someone's playthrough/gameplay), it unfortunately is easy to think that the anime is canon, which still is a problem to this day.
For the anime content itself, I really like that they tried to build some lore about Kirby himself, and about how he and MK are a species that are destined to be Star Warriors or something, its cute! I don't mind the Cappies either, although I wont lie, it was a little odd going with "Cappy" as the population LOL. Them giving some stories with some of the generic enemies, such as with Bonkers and Knuckle Joe, was really nice. They also chose a really good voice cast for everyone in both ENG and JP, especially Dedede's. I also like the little quirk for Dedede and Escargoon in the JP where they end their sentences with "zoi" and "gesu" (I don't really know the reason for this, but I think it's a personality quirk of sorts? I could be wrong though).
Also I love Chef Nagoya so much, he's so cute, one of my most favorite characters from the anime
I do have gripes with it though. I can't help but feel Meta Knight is... really weak LOL, he's supposed to be the "last Star Warrior" and dear god he feels like just... a retired old man JDSFJHJGHH it's a little hard to be convinced that HE was the last one to survive But he is a little goofy guy, he appears and just runs away giving vague advice as if he's those "wise" people tropes. Also the fact that they didn't make him fly, when (I think) in the pilot, he does. Also just. Dedede himself. NOT THAT HE'S BAD, I quite like him a lot. It's just his characterization fucked me up so badly that I have a hard time trying not to go back to his "big asshole" type characterization.
Kirby speaking. I like that they went with him saying "Poyo", but it's been engrained so hard into my brain that I legit didn't know it was an anime only thing till recently. Although, I think that's fine, but him actually... speaking... words. Feels wrong. And this is also another issue for me, because only recently have I started to accept the "Kirby can speak" headcanon, when for so long, I've accepted that Kirby doesn't really speak since he's a "baby", because of the anime.
This is specifically with the dub. I fucking hate that they made Blade Knight incomprehensible. You have no idea how big of a relief it was to hear Blade Knight have actual speaking lines in the sub. ALSO renaming Lololo and Lalala to "Fololo" and "Falala". That fucked me up so much, it took me so long to get used to their original names
Lastly is the animation. I absolutely love the style they went with for Dedede, it's really expressive! I know that they had to use 3D with some parts to save money/move the process along, but dear god they made some part's 3D when it would have been easier to have do it with 2D. But I guess you can't do anything about that.
By the way, the anime is the reason I have a strong hatred for Kine
In conclusion, the anime is good if you want some entertainment, but it kind of ruined/mixed up a lot of people's perception on Kirby and actual canon. While how badly that has effected the community is up to the community itself, but for me as a big fan of Kirby now, it kind of messed me up a bit that I struggle with separating them still.
#i'm burdened with the knowledge that MK's JP VA is the same as dmmd's protag#i hope he got that bag#ive been wanting to dump my brain about the anime for so long. ty anon#kirby right back at ya spoilers#hoshi no kaabii spoilers#spoilers#ask#anon#my writing#kirby
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