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kismetconstellations · 13 days ago
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@sockdooe, I apologize in advance if you're as clueless as I am, but I genuinely want to know.
What is the L/K "queerbait" I keep seeing people complain about? Did something major happen between Lance and Keith in seasons Five and Six-- like, they leaned in toward each other as if they were going to kiss only for it to be a gag/fake out?
I watched five seasons of this cartoon and saw absolutely no hint of anything baity with those characters.
Though I do see the validity in claims that fans were baited by Adam's significance in the show being hyped up
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only for his actual role to not amount to much more than another means of hurting Shiro, this, in my opinion, is the closest the show got to genuinely baiting its audience:
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There's no reason to animate Keith moving in for a hug this way, other than to give the impression that he was about to kiss Shiro like he's the fairytale prince to Shiro's Sleeping Beauty.
Continuing to interpret two teenaged boys butting heads and competing with each other as "sexual tension", even after, from what I read, the voice actor for one of those boys confirmed that his character is exclusively attracted to women, does not count as legitimate queerbaiting.
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cadejos · 5 months ago
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Nanami was always beautiful, but it's amusing how drastically he evolved in appearance from his teen years to adulthood. I know the diegetic reason for it (needing to #conform to that corporate drone lifestyle), but that only makes his choices during HS that much more interesting
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For example, his hair. While skimming late 00s Japanese hairstyle catalogues for men, I failed to find a direct inspiration for it, the way I could for the likes of Gojo and Haibara. IMO it could only be a strong indicator of his personality and interests (maybe even subcultural).
He clearly drew from his technique for the hair part as well, which would be endearing if intentional, although part of me wants to believe that it was mostly instinctual, carrying on into adulthood because once you find a comfortable way to part your hair you tend to stick to it.
Then there's the topic of his uniform. All JJ Tech uniforms get custom fits, and Nanami's has a strong silhouette. He has the wide shoulders and the cut gives his torso an almost rectangular, prominent shape. Contrast with Gojo, which is just a bit more triangular.
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On the other hand, his pants are possibly the skinniest out of the whole crew, or even in general if you include the modern generation of students. This was definitely an active fashion choice. Coupled with his gloomy, angsty teenage attitude, I feel like Nanami has quite a dramatic side that is often times overlooked. Probably because, just like his fashion choices, he had to learn how to conform to societal expectations.
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jojo-schmo · 11 months ago
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I wish I could tell the original artist that this drawing permanently changed the entire direction of my life in 2009. I want to shake their hand, look them in the eye, and admit I would not be who I am today if this drawing didn’t exist.
EDIT: Original artist is @ivynajspyder !!!!
#‘but jojo’ you ask. ‘that seems a little ridiculous’#‘don’t you think that’s a little much?’#no. NO. IT IS THE TRUTH.#little baby middle schooler jojo had just gotten squeak squad. the first kirby game she ever owned.#and she loved it even tho there’s a lot she didn’t understand#like who dedede was supposed to be or why copy abilities existed#I asked for the game because my roommate at swim camp had it and she told me the plot of the game when I looked over her shoulder to watch#(the plot she told me was completely made up btw she said kirby had to save the dimension from dark overlord and did not mention the squeak#and said stuff about meta knight being a bad guy idk I realize now she was just weaving a tale of her own haha)#SO I WAS NOT AWARE OF THE LORE. I had only played the one game and it’s the one people don’t like the plot of#but meta knight completely intrigued me#what was this blue sword wielding little kirby dude doing here??#so I’d replay his boss fight over and over again just to get that glimpse at his face#and I’d sit and wonder what it all meant. who was this mysterious swordsman??#and the boss fight was hard!!! it cost me to beat it at the time but I’d still do it to see his face#AND THEN AFTER LIKE A YEAR OF THIS it occurred to me that there was a kirby wiki online#so I found all the pictures of his face and my little fangirl-raised-by-deviantart mind ATE THIS UP.#and then I look up that one fateful google search……… the one that changed me#meta.#knight.#maskless.#and this drawing was towards the top of the results#I went feral about a fandom related topic for the very very first time#I lost my MIND. HOW can a character be so cute AND COOL??! I was a changed child.#I consumed the hoshi no kaabii anime like it was the only piece of media on earth#I drew comics about him. I made my first kirby oc ever to go on a grand adventure on him.#I filled my notebooks with kirby art to the point my mom was like ‘jossie. you REALLY need to branch out. these are just orbs.’#and now I am the kirby artist I am today. so yes. YES. this drawing did change my life.#thanks for reading. and thanks to the original artist. I tried to find them to link but nothing. so if you know pls tell me#THE END!!! and remember! your art makes a difference in people’s lives even if they don’t say it to your face!!!!
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agentnash · 4 months ago
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parker is like. generally not a good person. he's mean, and meaner when he's drunk ( which is most of the time ). he likes to say things specifically to get under people's skin, and he'll act like he doesn't care about anyone or anything. he cusses a lot ( mostly at people ), he's easy to anger and will always say that one thing that will hurt your feelings. and he refuses to apologize for any of it.
but he's good at his job - underneath it all, he cares about justice and wanting to do the right thing ( even if he goes about it the wrong way ). he has a soft spot for kids and is good with victims who are answering his questions. he's fiercely protective and loyal, and will bite anyone who raises a hand to the people he actually cares about.
he's just a sad and lonely alcoholic who got the shitty end of the stick, but if you can put up with him for long enough to see underneath all of his many, many, many flaws, you'll be able to see the good parts of him. it just takes time and trust.
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supurman · 4 months ago
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+ TOPIC : // the npc profile of the krypto you will find on supurman
QUICK SUMMARY: this krypto follows an original origin story but then features a twist when clark goes to college from my own design. i do this because i feel krypto has become a underutilized and eventually forgotten beloved companion of superman. on this blog i seek to make krypto more of a character in clarks life. its HIS dog from his home planet after all. he's a good boy.
KRYPTO HC DIRECTORY: 1 ( random summary of krypto facts and hcs )
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NAME: krypto ( real name ), spot ( past, secret identity), dusty ( current, secret identity ) ALIASES: krypto the super dog BELONGS TO: kal-el superman, and the house of el family FAVORITE PERSON: kal, but he loves all his el's. AGE: unsure & verse dependent., definitely older than superman by AT LEAST 4 years. doesnt show signs of aging. clark always says he's about 4 for his identities sake. OCCUPATION: live stock guardian dog, guard + attack dog ( always ), protector of metropolis ( current ), trained therapy dog to clark kent, part time guard dog for others if superman allows ( i,e green lanterns ask for krypto )
SECRET IDENTITY: dusty, the normal farm dog. as dusty kryptos high tech collar is black and shows a tag that says dusty. but when he turns into krypto the collar turns red, his tag turns into to the super insignia, and a cape pops out! even without krypto's collar can he blend in as a normal white dog who has no sense of duty and just likes to be content canine.
+ SUB TOPIC : // mannerisms....
krypto is a medium social dog who is only ever excited to see those he has a bond to. hes not overly social to meet strangers muhc preferring to stick with his people. but, he is not aggressive to random pettings from strangers which is completely fine. he more or less will just sit there. he is a friendly dog with a level head and a strong sense of duty as taught to him by superman.
IT IS IMPORTANT KNOW KRYPTO IS A DOG. unlike humans, he doesn't feel guilt to kill. krypto is trained to incapacitate but he also BITES TO KILL. more often then not he is shown in comics to go for the neck. so be sure to tell the dog first if you want him to kill or simply incapacitate. if you try to go for his family or people he is dedicated to protect often times krypto will make his own choice and that is to KILL.
+ SUB TOPIC : // powers ...
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EYES: a brown-orange. a common dog eye color... WEIGHT: 157 LBS FUR: white, has a coarseness to it on his back. EARS & TAIL: pointed ears, long paddle tail... prone to happy tail. but his tail wont hurt him it can hurt others like you kicked your beside corner!
krypto is a large white dog who looks like a cross between a german shepherd and a grey wolf. he has the same gait as a grey wolf which promotes calorie efficiency and maximum endurance. when asked by normal clark says his dog is very specific unrecognized breed from his corner in kansas. this is to not make any suspicious how clark seems to always have these very similar looking dogs over the years, since dogs do die but krypto does not !
+ SUB TOPIC : // DOG BREED . . .
BREED: kryptonian shepherd. much like the german shepherd of today they are a versatile breed who can do more then what they were originally intended for. krypto has a innate strong sense of guarding his people, a gentleness with domesticated animals, a high prey and ball drive which makes him great as a working dog. kryptonian shepherds feel happy to do any job. down to the bone this breed is a working dog and seeks stimulation. intelligent. capable of being independent and figuring things out on their own.. has a good 'off ' button so they can be an active dog when needed or a calm and relaxed companion at home after a good days work.
developed on krypton. it was a popular breed that could withstand the lower temperatures the planet could endure in the winter due to the red giant sun being very cool. featuring a white double coat that sheds out in the spring. these dogs only came in white.
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sent in a test rocket before the infant kal-el from krypton, krypto was meant to land on earth to accompany his infant kryptonian kal. in a sad turn of events krypto's rocket lost course so he laid suspended in space. after about 12 years krypto crash landed onto the same farm kal, now named clark, had when he was an infant. dog and boy now united they bonded quickly as the 2 only survivors of their destroyed home krypton. to krypto, the destruction of krypton meant nothing, finding his boy again meant everything.
krypto stayed with clark on the farm and just like his kryptonian the dog developed amazing powers under the yellow sun.
when clark turned 18 he sought to bring his dog with him to metropolis so he too made a secret identity for his pooch. clark learned how to train dogs himself , trained krypto, then eventually become a certified service dog so he can readily follow his boy. together, they headed off into metropolis.
over the years, krypto did develop a rebellious stage becoming quite reactive for reasons clark could only equate to not knowing how to go about his powers. the dog would scare lois, and was even aggressive to kara. he was a liability to hurt someone. however, clark always believed his dog was good and never gave up on krypto. going back to square one, clark trained krypto more to properly utilize his senses and powers and hone his focus.
now, the dog is a staple to metropolis having earned the name super dog, dog of tomorrow! his el family now goes beyond just his boy kal but to all his kids as well. life is good for a dog and his boy.
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krypto helps defeat atlas and becomes metropolis's dog too ! hes just happy to be here.
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rp notes ... : anyone is allowed to direct an ask at krypto, or ask for him ina thread. i am very happy to write out this very intelligent dog and make bonds with him!
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overhual · 15 days ago
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THE OVERHAUL QUIRK.
in essence, it’s destruction and restoration, but it’s not that simple. it would be easy to say “overhaul just changes the cells”, however, it doesn’t quirk work like that. it’s stored in the hands (and the feet, though this is unknown to kai), and can work if any part of his hand comes into contact with an object.  note:  this headcanon is directly tied to @necrotises, as this overhaul is the origin of their decay. 
more under the cut. btw, this can be reblogged and be used for reference by rp partners only.
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disassembly: the quirk itself has the ability to manipulate potential energy stored within an object, living or not, transforming it into heat or a kinetic energy at a rapid pace. in the case of overhaul, this transformation happens so rapidly that it must be pushed out with great force, resembling an explosion. 
reassembly: it’s a bit more complicated than “overhaul puts the disassembled material back together”. rather, the quirk can pull back affected material, living or not, and reform it into kai’s image. 
limitations.
precision: overhaul is not specific enough to splice down to atoms. he can get somewhat specific, but not specific enough to completely change the atomic makeup of an object. the object will always have qualities of its original form. that said, chisaki will do your transgender operations! (its reparations for accidentally misgendering magne. sorry mag. his bad.) he did his own top surgery, and opted to leave almost fishbone looking scars.
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timeframe: reassembly can only occur for up to 15 minutes after disassembly. otherwise the ability to pull back the affected material is altered. were he to try reassemble after that time period, the object would need to be disassembled and reassembled once more. 
two-halves: disassembly is possible without reassembly, but not the reverse. if chisaki is not intending to reassemble, the energy must be released. as we see in magne, compress, and that one hassaikai babysitter, we see the “explosion” mentioned earlier. blood is splattered everywhere, and a mess is made. this is inevitable. were he to do this to another object, it would react similarly. 
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specifics.
restoration: kai can decide how much of a person is reassembled, but this takes concentration to adjust to an imperfect level. the quirk naturally seeks to reassemble to a near-perfect level. it’s likely that if an ally is ressembled, they will find all cavities and minor injuries completely healed.  this may also happen if he’s in a rush, or looking to display his power. 
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fusions: quick note here, kai can use overhaul through someone else’s hands, but only if they are fused to his body. there’s no magic possessing or anything. he must have the hands fused to his body in order for it to work. back to the main point.  kai can fuse any two objects together, including himself, though it is not necessary. 
fusing himself: kai will always remain the dominant consciousness if he’s fusing with another human. the other will be in a dream-like state, and likely will have blurry memories of the events once split. additionally, he can use the quirks of others once fused, as we see with nemoto. 
fusing others: whichever will be the dominant consciousness is a gamble. he can’t decide that; it’ll be something of a battle between the minds being fused. and because of that, fusing two humans is a risk.  chisaki can fuse more than two beings together, but the consciousness situation becomes more tricky after that, so he prefers to only fuse two, or fuse with himself.
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stability: overhaul is an unstable quirk. anything may accidentally be overhauled when the gloves are off. should chisaki experience heightened emotional stress or external stimuli, he has little control over what gets overhauled. he has no issues immediately overhauling whatever puts him under such intense stress, so be mindful of staying in his good graces. additionally, many pillows and bedsheets have been overhauled during times of intimacy and ecstasy. the quirk itself was more unstable when he was younger, which the gloves helped. on top of this, he trained to keep himself calm in most situations, but it’s still a gamble when the gloves metaphorically (and physically) come off. 
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experience. 
disassembling: being disassembled, though it seems like the most painful part, is actually the calm before the storm. it’s quick, and not the worst pain anyone is likely to feel. its uncomfortable, of course, as any manipulation of energy in the body would be. there is a warmth as the body part “explodes”, but as mentioned above, it’s so incredibly quick. the victim might not even know they were disassembled. 
reassembling: this is where all the pain that should've been experienced in the disassembling stage catches up to the victim. as nerves are rebuilt, the pain from the disassembling is finally felt, leaving the victim in genuine agony, even for those with high pain tolerances. 
those being reassembled can expect to experience: 
mind-altering pain.  the inability to speak or stand. they may also experience temporary amnesia. 
extreme psychological distress.  possible delusions/hallucinations from the pain.
physical symptoms.   nausea, vomiting, heart palpitations, sweating, muscle spasms, and more. 
chronic symptoms will include: 
common ptsd symptoms.   depression, anxiety, paranoia, nightmares, flashbacks.
phantom pains, despite the body being restored.
upgrades. 
atom-splicing:  were overhaul to upgrade this quirk, he would likely be able to splice things down to the atom . this would allow him to split quirks from owners, change the entire makeup of something, and so on.
contact:   another potential upgrade would be the ability to overhaul something from not just his hands nor feet. rather, his arm or leg could brush against something and change it.  
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overhaul and chisaki. 
the quirk takes little from him. while some quirks come at the cost of stamina or concentration, overhaul doesn’t ask much from kai. he doesn’t need to know the makeup of something to restore it, nor does it take time for him to overhaul an object or person. the process happens in seconds. he attends medical school in order to get a better understanding of anatomy for his ultimate goal, though this knowledge helps him adjust the level of reassembly.
it has little psychological effect on him, and the only thing he “feels” when overhauling is moderate heat in his hands from the energy transfer. he does experience the same pain as a victim would when he overhauls himself. he trained to handle the pain and work through it quickly, but he still remarks it as unpleasant.
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conclusion.
overhaul is an incredibly powerful quirk that certainly should’ve earned more than a “b-rank” in ultra analysis. it’s ultimately unstable, though chisaki has trained for the amount of control he has currently. it has many different applications, though the symptoms and side effects of being overhauled are intense.
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ferociiumarchive · 7 months ago
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just a small reminder that danny is indeed 5'6
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kismetconstellations · 22 days ago
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The most "dad-like" thing Shiro ever does is this:
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cadejos · 4 months ago
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ON NANAMI'S POWER LEVEL, DOMAIN EXPANSIONS, DOMAIN COUNTERS, AND HOW JUJUTSU SOCIETY PLAYS A ROLE.
This analysis originally turned viral on twitter. I'm posting it here for archival.
Nanami treated sorcery like a job and Gojo treated sorcery like a lifestyle. I've thought long and hard about why Nanami does not have certain skills (DE, Simple Domain, etc) that'd easily bump him up in terms of power, as he's already very strong. The reason is two-fold:
He never set out to do more than what he absolutely had to do. ("Moderate effort where moderate effort suffices," etc)
Information about sorcery is very gatekept and compartmentalized, because Jujutsu society sucks.
For point number 1, we are to keep in mind that Nanami is a grade one sorcerer, very much the peak of what sorcery is supposed to be outside of Special Grade work. The purpose of sorcery, up until very recently, has been about killing curses, most of which are not special grade or intelligent. The disaster curses are anomalies, and battles with Domain users were very rare until they showed up. They vastly skewed the power system. Remember that not even Naobito Zenin, the head of one of the great clans, had a Domain expansion either, and it took the work of a Domain user (Megumi) and an experienced sorcerer killer (Toji) to properly counter Dagon in his domain.
If domain battles are truly so rare, I don't really blame Nanami for not going out of his way to work on developing one, especially since Domains require an element of self-assurance that Nanami, due to trauma and disposition, was never geared toward developing.
His soul was strong enough to protect against a novice Mahito subconsciously, which is a promising start, but once Mahito grew too strong he was way out of Nanami's scope (not to mention Gege deliberately tired him over the course of Shibuya) and Nanami was more inclined to take his loss gracefully than to force himself to craft an spontaneous Domain Expansion. It's not like he really had the energy to try, either.
Overall, developing a DE for the off chance that he stumbled upon a Domain user just doesn't sound like his style. And he wouldn't do it for fun, either, because jujutsu is not fun for him, and it never has been. It's just work.
Let's say he would want to at least develop a domain counter, though. That's where point number 2 steps in. The whole reason something as fundamental as a domain counter is so rare in jujutsu is purely because jujutsu society is inherently selfish and self-serving.
If I recall correctly, SD is not something you can teach due to a binding vow tied to the technique. It has to be something you learn on your own through observation and intuition, or by joining New Shadow Style. Up until UiUi's soul swapping, there wasn't a reliable work around for this conundrum. And the other domain counters? Old, not very well known, and gatekept by the clans.
Sometimes I'm inclined to believe jujutsu sorcerers learn sorcery not because of the school system but in spite of it. Unless you're already a genius, born gifted, or willing to go an extra -- ambiguously illicit -- mile (like Kusakabe), there's not much the average sorcerer can do, and not many tools for them to learn to begin with. Nanami is presented as the baseline of what modern day good sorcery looks like; what you can achieve if you're competent, and don't have the privilege of relying on very good mentors, obscure knowledge, or ancient techniques. Even then he had an expansion technique, not something every sorcerer has, and he was capable of achieving one of the pinnacles of Jujutsu, which is the black flash; precisely because of his attitude toward jujutsu and his ability to focus when things get serious.
Maybe if given enough time to heal from his psychological wounds, and given opportunities for more black flashes, as well as a strong enough incentive, he could have circumvented a lot of problems and enlightened his way toward a DE or other such jujutsu-relevelations.
But that's speculation and not really the point of his character.
Had he been a villain though? Gege probably would've made him stronger, if his Culling Games score in JJK's draft Jujutsu Sousen is anything to go by, which is amusing.
Supplementary reading:
In regards to black flashes: a post where I go over why I think Yuuji and Nanami are especially good at them, and why I think they require conditions that are in opposition to Domain expansions.
Measuring Nanami's critical hit power: where I use a statement to further analyze and evaluate the capabilities of the Ratio Technique.
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witchkillr · 2 months ago
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do you ever think about how agatha watched billy grow up. she was literally with him almost from birth, looked after him, watched him when his mother was struggling, kidnapped and held him hostage and then met him again years later when he didn’t remember a thing but idolised her, somehow, some cosmic way. and she didn’t know then, but she suspected — this was the little boy who sat on her couch and said he liked it there because her mind was quiet, unable to control his power, innocently grateful for the reprieve she offered in the course of betraying his family.
she tried to distance herself, and it almost worked, but the trick of it is this: her son, too, had power he couldn’t control at that age. her son, too, had dark hair and big eyes and knew more tragedy than someone that young should ever have to hold. she suspected, but there were several possible explanations, and as she worked through them he was unfailingly, naively sweet in the same way he had been that day in her stolen westview home. it hadn’t broken him, not yet.
even when he nearly died, he didn’t break, but agatha did. not entirely, not irreparably, but she cracked — she was caught caring in the throes of a trauma flashback and forced to reconcile the fact that it doesn’t matter who he is, whether he’s nick or billy or someone else altogether. agatha does not want him dead.
he isn’t hers, but it doesn’t matter. it’s good to see him again, even in the midst of all his familial baggage and volatile, teenage emotions. he’s finally starting to let go of the naïveté and come into his own as a survivour — as a witch — and she is proud of him. (this coexists with other, more complicated feelings: the fact that she is painted as the monster, for example, in order to break him out of his picturesque worldview. she is a monster but she wasn’t in that moment. in that moment she was a starving animal, and he doesn’t believe her, because he is sixteen and two things cannot be true at once.)
she doesn’t know how to be a good mother, but she knows how to teach. so that’s what she’ll do.
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machineheralded · 1 month ago
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bruh. what. where was the MACHINE part to the machine herald
why did he look like that
that was gay as hell but WHAT - "i just want my partner back" then finding out vik is the mage at the beginning like I said and he kept giving jayce the one rune he needed. that ending was gay where they both disappeared into the void together.
me and seb are so divergent because WHAT where is the true divorce era and WHY DID THOSE MACHINES LOOK LIKE THAT
fuck it the eternal Machine Herald (that mage self is gonna look like the herald) is gonna augment him in the Void like my original idea because WHAT?
then jayvik can go into the void at like the end of time or w/e and spend their eternal happiness and life together by themselves
however WHAT THE HELL, it completely diverged from actual LoL stuff and m salty
no lab break ins? no divorce era where they try to kill each other? the forcing of everyone to join the evolution when Viktor only wants to change those willing?
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ketsumyo · 6 days ago
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// my head hurts again so naturally i'm laying in bed rethinking/plotting how the kuragane clan possibly operate akin to hatamoto rank or shi-shi identity with ties to governance. they are scholars, adopting confucian principles, and serve as intellectual and administrative contributors (tsubaki's grandfather, the then-patriarch of the kuragane clan, would have been a member of the 46 killed by aizen's hand).
the kuragane, therefore, would fall under the umbrella of a middle-tier noble family. that is to say they are influential with a long-standing history of service, but lack the power, wealth, and lineage of the great noble houses.
their reputation would stem from their commitment to scholarship and guidance related to integrity, tradition, and honour (bushidō). they embody the shi-shi ethos of guiding society through wisdom and moral leadership rather than sheer martial prowess. they are the pen to the sword.
and then their is tsubaki, the first-born daughter to the head branch, who, as a keen strategist, is more aligned with the more practical shōhei mindset. her views on duty and willingness to challenge tradition in respect of adaptability put her at odds with her family's purpose. this tension begins even before she achieves a shikai that crosses a boundary the sword preserves. for traditionalists, her ability is less like "fighting with honour" and more like "violating nature".
her familial background and inherited beliefs would be at odds with her pragmitism, leading to her struggle to accept the intimate nature of ketsumyō.
in fact, the manipulation of blood is so damning in shinto belief i would not be surprised if the maggot's nest had been a consideration—spared, perhaps, by her clan's reputation and her (momentary) retreat into the 4th division.
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ferociiumarchive · 7 months ago
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despite danny being so short, rest assured that he can and will throw anyone over his shoulder or manhandle them when he needs to.
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inevestigator · 14 days ago
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what're your thoughts on neve's reaction to leaving the mayor of demeta's crossing?
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neve disapproves.
this is really interesting, especially so early in the game, and it says a lot. because neve gallus fights corruption and greed every day of her life. she sees power corrupt and she's presented as the cynical, jaded detective who sees the darkness in the world and wants to fight against it.
and yet of all the companions there, she's the only one who disapproves of rook not giving the mayor a second chance.
she's also the one that brings up sending him to the wardens, if your rook is a warden. in other words, she wants to see him punished and redeemed. not dead.
and ultimately it is about redemption and manipulation. yes, greedy people are greedy and they can and will do things for the sake of greed. and we get notes that state the mayor has clearly been fleecing his constituents. not repairing things that need repairing etc.
but he's still just a person and the way he describes the influence of the gods being 'in his head' and 'making him want things' is very reminiscent of blood magic (which it is) and so there's an argument to be made that he was not in his right mind and he was being magically controlled. neve is automatically going to be the one with understanding of that.
bellara and harding seem to be looking at this from the perspective of people who have just witnesses a horrific scene, seen civilians and friends murdered and want to enact justice on someone for it. this kind of corruption is not new to neve (maybe not on this scale but it's not a new concept).
but is the mayor wholly responsible? no. however he does share some of the responsibility. this is the work of the gods, though. if he hadn't given in they probably still would have taken the village in the same way. this was an inevitability, he just chose to save himself. wrong? yes. but pretty expected from people in power if you're neve. and the blame still lies with the gods.
this speaks to neve's ability to see the bigger picture, and to put aside her feelings on horrific things to really get into the reasoning and put the blame where it should go. something that will come up again if you let minrathous fall.
however, she is not and they are not judge, jury and executioner.
does she trust the system? no. does she think people are better off dead? also no. she wants to see people choose to be better. she wants to see people getting the punishment they deserve, rather than the only punishment available. it speaks to her secret hopefulness, the reason she carries on despite her outlook being dour and her work being nigh on impossible.
this ends up being kind of a big thing in neve's plotline (except for when it isn't) and this moral choice either pays off, in the inspiring ending, when she turns aelia over to the authorities. or as we see her become the thing she disapproved of at the beginning, with the protector ending where aelia is turned over to the threads, a clear showcase of how seeing those horrific things happened to her people can actually alter her thoughts and perceptions. it's growth, but maybe not for the better.
i do believe that at the beginning of the game she genuinely cannot stomach the idea of letting someone be killed in a truly horrific fashion just to appease some twisted sense of justice. let him live with his decisions and choose to do better next time.
and god this pays off so well if you send him to the wardens. poetic cinema.
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kismetconstellations · 9 days ago
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@sockdooe, I think that person was attempting to argue, with some exceptionally odd choice of words, that Sheith shippers are "nasty", because Shiro and Keith first met when Keith was a child. I assumed, based on the seven year age-difference and the fact that Shiro and Adam were cohabitating and headed toward engagement, that Shiro was at least twenty-one and Keith was fourteen and a high school freshman, when Shiro came out to Keith's school.
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Not Shiro eighteen and Keith twelve.
Steven Yeun's voice was pitch-shifted in the flashbacks, but not enough to suggest that Keith hadn't even started puberty, yet. And, I don't think even fictional military academies recruit middle schoolers to be communications experts, data analysts, engineers, and pilots.
The majority of Shiro/Keith shippers only ship them in the context of both of them being legal adults, anyway, so I thought we were largely past the Keith/Shiro shippers are "pedophiles", angle.
Evidently not.
I guess I was giving this fandom too much credit.
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