#(one behind the mask) Mun izunia

[izunias-meme-hole]

I love the finalized design, but holy shit his concept art looks just as intimidating.

[ask-darius-brando]

//It’s funny how out of all the options for an Older/Post-SDC Darius voice, out of all the fancast ideas that popped that has popped into my heads millions of times, Richard Epcar, Daemon Clarke, Jason Manrocha, Jameson Price, and Kirk Thornton, my mind settled on Paul St Peter on being the definitive “Older Darius” voice. Then again this is the same guy who voiced Xemnas from the KH series and did a damn great job voicing Wamuu in the Battle tendency dub.

( art by: @asknerdizzy )

[ask-spw-mercenary]

//You know what… say the name of one of my characters, and I’ll assign a pokemon team to them.

[dive-into-shadows]

That was actually a very surprising reveal. Good shit!

//Thanks! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[izunias-meme-hole]

Huh... would you look at that?

what are y’all’s tarot birth cards?

mine are the tower and the chariot

[izunias-meme-hole]

These fellas gave me the impression that Caped Crusader might be a more grounded take on the Batman mythos with a clear golden age comic book flair (guys in suits with quirks, Selina, and Serial Killers with gimmicks)

Oh how wrong I was...

Edit: GUESS WHO'S ALSO HERE?!

[ask-darius-brando]

//More Darius fancasts, however this time it’s Ian Sinclair as Part 3/SDC Darius. I’d consider this my definitve SDC Darius Voice or just the definitive younger Darius.

( art by @asknerdizzy )

[dive-into-shadows]

Send this to ten other bloggers that you think are wonderful. Keep the game going, make someone smile!! 🖤🖤🖤🖤

thx for the kind ask!

[izunias-meme-hole]

Oh Miquella... what a guy.

In all seriousness though, after like a few weeks of Shadow of The Erdtree being out and grasping the environmental storytelling of it all, I can easily say that Miquella was certainly something. On one hand he 100% betrays the very idea of being a 100% shining beacon of hope, of being someone that you'd trust with your life, and there some cracks in his writing due to some slight disconnect between the DLC and main game (like that Radahn shit is kinda questionable from a writers standpoint). On the other hand he's a good antagonist because his ultimate end goal to make a better world did start from a genuine place.

He wanted to heal his sister, he wanted Radahn to not be a warmonger, he genuinely wanted an era of love and compassion. However, the second he sent Malenia to kill Radahn so his soul to be brought back, and the second he used his charm to convert Mohg into a worse type of creep just to buy himself more time to achieve his goal, the second that he used his gift to charm others as a method of brainwashing, was where he started tearing himself apart. From there, he would go to the Land of Shadows and discard parts of himself, including St. Trina, his love and from moment on he would go to the Gate of Divinity to be reborn as a god. Hell, St. Trina even says that Miquella ascending to godhood would cage him, ultimately making all this self mutilation and brainwashing for nothing.

Miquella wanted to heal a world that was utterly broken beyond repair by his mother's actions, which is understandable. He wanted to make things better, but had a lack of understanding on how bad the damage was, and when he did gain that understanding he broke himself down. He broke himself down out of willful ignorance, believing that he and he alone could make things better by doing this, until he ultimately became a different being from when he started. In short, Miquella The "Kind" is the metaphorical corpse of Miquella The Unalloyed.

I don't know if this was Miyazaki's intention from the start, but it ultimately works for what it is IMO, despite the more flawed bits of the execution.

[ask-darius-brando]

meryl mei qi is simultaneously a girlboss, a milf, positive plus size rep and tall girl rep.

in short i need her hand in marriage now-

//Go for it anon!

[ask-spw-mercenary]

Me: Imma carefully cook my plot

My brain: *Au’s and classes go brrr*

Me:

( Funni image made by @filthygonzokinner​ a.k.a @moriohs-little-demon​ and Eijiro Otoishi belongs to @poorly-drawn-akira​ )

[dive-into-shadows]

What happens to you if both your malice and purity get drinked

//Even though I don’t see this kind of scenario happening in a plot, I can see the result of that.

The soul ends up gets turned into blank slate in a sense. The memories and mind are still intact, but it cannot feel emotion. If removing malice makes people docile, vulnerable, less malevolent, and removes a possible seed for evil, and removing Purity removes morality, stability, and increases the capacity for malevolence or plain evil, then the removal of both just creates this blank slate that doesn’t know negativity or positivity.

[jojo-incorporated]

Doc, you heading back any time soon?

//I am still writing a big plot point atm, but I think we all know where this is going : )

[izunias-meme-hole]

You've been rebloging a decent amount of Soulsborne stuff, so if you have time, can you say who your favorite character's are in all these games?

Oh... well a fair amount of my thoughts CERTAINLY changed, but I'll give you a top 10.

Number 1. Messmer The Impaler (Elden Ring) - Messmer was certainly a welcome surprise. He was the firstborn son of Queen Marika, ultimately the one who personally oversaw the genocide of the hornsent in the Land of Shadow, and event so horrific and cruel that its impact could still be felt within the present day. He was afflicted with a curse at his birth, in which a dark and malevolent snake threatened to eat him from the inside, which resulted in Marika plucking out his eye and replacing it with a seal of grace. Sounds like quite the monster, right? Well here's the thing. Messmer's a surprisingly good boss, like he literally preserved his enemies culture inside a storeroom just because one of his knights requested it, and has at least some level of compassion. Sure some of his men defected after finding out about the true nature of his existence, but there were some that even stuck around because they know who he is as a person. So why did this great guy commit literal one of the most horrific events in history? Well you see, Marika basically told him to eliminate the hornsent, and it wasn't just a standard order... it was a secret banishment for him, and Marika's vengeance on the hornsent. That's right, Messmer was exiled so he could be a scapegoat for his mother in the Land of Shadow. While this doesn't absolve him of his crimes, it ultimately makes him extremely pitiable.

Number 2. Queen Marika & Radagon (Elden Ring) - A god, a vessel, a warmonger, a mother, a schemer, a monster, and a pitiful woman. These are all the things that Queen Marika The Eternal was, and by god she deserves to be remembered by all of them. Radagon is her other half. The Demigods were her children. Messmer is her son. The Lands Between were her lands. She destroyed several races. She destroyed the Elden ring. Everything in the game is connected to her in some capacity. This is some Sauron tier shit that's been done with someone who's now just a prisoner in her own fortress thanks to her fear of her reigns inevitable end. Elden Ring has a TON of antagonists, each one active in their own right across the Lands Between. Marika on the other hand is both a prisoner in her own home, and a god on her last knees who faces The Tarnished through Radagon, yet almost every last evil committed in the game is connected to her past history of cruelty and malevolence in service to her Golden Order.

Number 3. Malenia (Elden Ring) - Malenia was my fave for a good while, and is still one of my top 5 bosses in the series. Her background, how that background ties into the world, her difficulty not being too bullshit yet still giving veterans a good taste of the dirt, her simplistic yet effective character, and the concept of someone being that goddamn sickly yet still being so undeniably persistent, powerful, and near-invincible is intriguing and cool, and it's executed very well in her case. Her boss being optional is just icing on the cake. Overall she's a spectacle.

Number 4. Miquella (Elden Ring) - He's a charming lil guy. Yes he cut out everything that made himself a good person in order to become the god of a new era, and is an expert manipulator due to his powers, but he's still just a lil guy.

Number 5. Father Gascoigne (Bloodborne) - Originally, Laurence was my favorite Bloodborne character, but after some careful reconsideration... this guy is at the top. Why? I like how simplistic his lore is, but aside from that, he's basically a reflection of the Good Hunter and a really great first legit boss. He serves as a gatekeeper for new players, and his transformation from skilled hunter to a monstrous werewolf mid-fight is a perfect introduction to what fate usually awaits any hunter who inevitably gets blood drunk in Yharnam. And the cherry on top? He's just a guy. He was just a normal ass hunter with a wife and child before all of this, hell you could even use his daughter's music box to snap him out of his blood drunk state for a second. IMO Gascoigne is underrated as hell.

Number 6. Lady Maria (Bloodborne) - Between the Plain Doll being based off her, her connection to Gehrman, and being one of the hunters at the Fishing Hamlet, Maria is undeniably a great character with a vast presence.

Number 7. Ludwig (Bloodborne) - Tragic Hornse. In all seriousness though, Ludwig is a perfect summary of Bloodborne, and honestly one of the top 3 bosses in the entire series.

Number 8. Isshin Ashina (Sekiro) - Isshin's presence overshadows that of the main antagonist, Genechiro Ashina, and its entirely intentional. He basically is the symbol of his entire clan, leading a rebellion against the invading forces alongside many warriors and triumphing. Isshin was a living legend in the past, but in the present? He's old, sick, and on his last legs. He's still defending his clan, but for his strength, he's still mortal. He's still human. He's the perfect reflection of his clan. That and he’s an amazing final boss. Go Grandpa Ashina!

Number 9. Gwyn, Lord of Cinder (Dark Souls) - Horrible, HORRIBLE god. He ruined humanity, is a bad father, and is SO worthy of being hated... yet he's so pitiable and pathetic. Gwyn is responsible for almost every tragedy in the trilogy, yet even his own story is a tragedy. A paranoid god king making the literal worst decisions ever to the point where he literally destroys himself. There's a level of understandability with his character that makes him tragic, but ultimately, he's still a monster. And this isn't even bringing up the Soul of Cinder.

Number 10. Slave Knight Gael (Dark Souls) - An old slave knight from the age of fire, literal cannon fodder, not only outlives the gods, but goes on a quest to get the Dark Soul so that The Painter, his niece, would paint a new world. You get familiar with him in the Ashes of Ariandel DLC, and by the time of the Ringed City DLC you see that Gael has slipped into madness and stands atop literal desolation. At first he fights on all 3's, only using his sword as a weapon as he jumps and crawls around, but after his guts are cut open and he gets the power of the dark soul, he truly begins fighting like a man and will occasionally rely on the newfound power he has to strike the Ashen One down with magic. Still at the end of the day... this fight is just between two nobodies who outlived the gods.

[izunias-meme-hole]

OH FUCK I ALMOST FORGOT

[ask-darius-brando]

//Hmm… what if I gave Darius’s post-SDC designs a little bit of a goatee or sideburns?