#* // ⌗ ooc : incoherent rambling.

[looksgold]

plots   /   vibes   i   need   immediately   (lms   if   ur   interested   and   i'll   hit   ur   dms   up):

-   best   friends   who   sabotage   each   others'   dates   until   they   finally   accept   they   should   be   together -   party   boy   x   innocent   girlie   who   he   corrupts   lowkey -   influencer   x   influencer   power   couple   who   look   perfect   outwardly/on   social   media   but   also   maybe   he's   toxic   behind   the   scenes -   secret   relationships -   rich   girl   x   poor   boy   who   doesn't   think   he   is   worthy   of   her -   drug   dealer   x   their   best   customer   who's   broke   but   offers   'favours'   as   payment -   honestly   a   messy   ass   black   mail   plot

[shepcdr]

this was from quite a while ago, but i was thinking this morning about how i read a comment somewhere that garrus being a romance for mshep would ruin their friendship/bro thing and i dont quite agree with that... if someone's perspective that garrus is into women, i could 100% understand that and love him all the same bcuz i love every single garrus and whatever/whomever garrus likes? valid. up to him. i will kiss him OR i will be his wingman any day!

BUT i don't quite see that garrus being bisexual and into shepard would "ruin their friendship." where's the evidence that it would not in fact make their friendship even funnier and goofier

[meteorea]

something about me comparing my muses and their stories to the dawn/sunrise but cloud specifically the silver lining that shows through the parting clouds after a storm like THESE PICS ARE JUUST... MAN!! that's the boy

like going through the storm, mind lost in the darkness, floating in the atmosphere far from reality, and then they start to open up but it's still dark outside and your reality is shifting, your ground literally coming apart and crumbling beneath you, and then you go through your past and you piece together who you were through this intense night of confusion and reliving heartbreak and trauma but you make it through with the strength of your closest friend (shoutout to tifa fr) and you wake up and you're a shell of a person you've been living a lie but there's this light that shines at dawn and you're awake now and you get to live your life anew and that light continues to light and show you the way and you can't touch it but you can see it and you can feel its warmth and its guiding you and (looks at zack and aerith in ac) im not crying youre crying

[soulmissed]

i feel like writing action-y threads. possibly horror / survival horror related. (if applicable.)

auggie having to hide from monsters n enemies

auggie befriending the scary thing in the woods

auggie holed up somewhere with your muse -- collecting ammo, weapons, food.

auggie putting himself between your muse n the big bad wolf.

[ryathenaughtykitsune]

Absolutely screeching mun wise as I found a raistlin majere (dragon lance novels I adored growing up). Needless to say, he was the coolest character I read back when I was a kid. From what I remember, there were white mages (followed the good magics mostly helped in healing and protecting), red mages (neutral), and black robed (dark mages). He tugged hardest on my heart, especially with the fact of how he grew up.

[quiisquiliae]

No thoughts, just thinkin' bout Tal ending up a Warden by the time Veilguard comes around >.>

[habitual-creatures]

Y'KN0W...I STILL HAV3 N0 ID3A WHAT WAS G0ING 0N WITH TH3 H3ART THING. I C3RTAINLY F33L ALIV3.

~CHA0TICALLY, DISC0RD/🕕

What'sitlike- to feel alive? It'sbeen- too long for us to- tellanymore...

[voxiiferous]

**| Interesting revelations of the evening!

I’m not certain Vox has ever actually fired a gun. He’s certainly never owned one. Most of the time if he needs to cause pain his just sort of… goes zappy on them. Flesh doesn’t take kindly to massive amounts of electricity!

Hah! Now that I have drawn you in with fun hc there’s the more serious examination of themes. A consequence of when I started writing Vox is the fact that I could not turn off the university part of my brain that’s just like “if you were to write an essay for him what are the themes you would focus on? What DEFINES him???” And the answer was performance, because clearly right? He’s TV man.

And this had the unintentional side effect of earning him the “not as bad a person as you could have been” award because if he was a really bad boss, and I leaned more into the corrupt businessman aspects of him, then that core theme would have been less performance and more consumerism and capitalism. Which I decided was not thematically relevant and would have just detracted from the overall character I wanted to write.

If I had to pick his main three vibes it’s: performance in big bold letters (more on that in a sec), modernization (not capitalism or consumerism, but specifically that transition of technology and opinion), and a very sci-fi concern of what is a human? Is he still?

but but but going back to the performance. It’s so key to how I write him. Like there’s the literal performance aspect on screen, but it’s more than that. As Vincent he performs a veneer of, if not heterosexuality, than at least… not queerness. But otherwise he’s still very much him. Sure his charm was taught, but he made it a part of himself, it’s not a performance anymore, he has things he enjoys and doesn’t, and is, more or less, honest in that. Vox is… not that. It’s why in the 1946!Vincent content, the fun is forcing Vox to acknowledge himself. He has to step beyond the performance, he has to see backstage essentially. He has to be vulnerable.

And vulnerability is something that cannot exist in the Overlord Vox persona, which he is constantly inhabiting. But at the same time that’s not who he actually is, but it’s who he’s performing as, even to himself. He’s always on this knife’s edge of self reflection and juuust missing the point, because if he goes to close to the truth, the masquerade falls apart.

There’s this line from the song All for Believing by Missy Higgins that’s great here, and it’s “But I see you painted your soul into your guard”, and it’s super true for Vox. Overlord Vox is the face of every new product, he derides the old as outdated, he’s ruthless, and powerful and confident. Nothing gets under the skin of Overlord Vox, not even a broken screen, see him laughing in Voxtagram? Laugh with him. It keeps him safe, it’s the image that’s given him power and control and the successful end result to all the ambition that is still a core part of him.

Vox however??? Vox is a bit of romantic, and he loves swing music, and black and white game shows, he’s an insomniac and a bit of nerd. It’s not that Overlord Vox isn’t him, because like the lyrics says, it’s been painted into. Overlord Vox is the strongest parts of himself people take seriously and made into a living, breathing part of himself. It’s a shield and a half truth.

Money does play a role, but it’s a tertiary one at best. He has more money than God, he owns everything under the sun, great, great, it plays the role it needs to and is otherwise vague. What is he doing with his money??? Uhh, I don’t know, who cares?

The modernization works in with the performance, though that’s another post of its own. So please enjoy this somewhat rambling roundabout examination of why my Vox is, all things considered, not that bad a dude. It’s about the pretentious English major themes, and that being the least interesting thing to explore for me. (Just see his playlist, it’s basically all “look at me, look at me, look at what I’m showing you, don’t look over there behind the scenes).

[marinehero]

Thinking thoughts ab this messed up family again and thinking again about Garp wanting for Ace and Luffy to become strong - strongest - marines as form of protection because to him that's their best shot at staying alive.

While Dragon on the other hand was significantly different, I do think he was unexpected, because frankly Garp was and is not fit to be a parent ( having had no parental figure growing up ) nor do I think he would've really wanted a child. But he still loved his son and tried his best with what support he had from his peers and friends. He still wanted Dragon to be a marine, of course, but without the same kind of pressuring need as there'd been with Ace or Luffy, he'd be far more inclined towards letting things progress at a more natural pace.

He was still strict, more knowledged on being a soldier than father, but more lienient and more present in Dragon's early life. Present enough to complain and rant about restrictions and his anger towards the government and celestial dragons to or where his son could hear.

[looksgold]

guess who's back? back again? hit the like button... for the link. :)

[shepcdr]

so i lied and i'm NOT done writing the "shepard and languages" headcanon because i decided like an idiot that i should write drabbles to go along with it. which is undoubtedly going to take me a thousand years — but dropping a lil bit from what i was working on earlier today!!!!

anyway, i think the first alien that shepard ever meets on earth is a turian, and purely by coincidence; the shitty city/megatropolis he grew up in is not a tourist destination, for many reasons. few aliens ever came through. this little turian boy and his mum probably got off at the wrong stop...

anyway. for alien squadmates. think about shepard picking up little random words over the years through watching/listening to news broadcasts, advertisements, radio. think about them just chilling when suddenly this human opens his mouth and unmistakably starts making the closest sound to some alien language that a human can. think about being councillor sparatus and shepard getting fed up in me1 and hurling what is undeniably an untranslatable turian expletive at you—

anyway, because i don't know when i'll finish writing it... shepard has rudimentary to basic speaking/conversational ability in a smattering of earth languages because of the melting pot of an area he grew up, and exposure to a lot of languages in his time with the Tenth Street Reds (many of them are multilingual). he is not a grammatical expert by any means, and any conversations he's having in anything other than English are usually a little broken, but the important thing is that he understands and can communicate. and he is actually decent at replicating most alien language sounds (though to the trained ear, it might sound crude, but that's the limitations of the human body/voice). knows some amount of alien vocabulary, most notably in turian/batarian/vorcha for some fuck all reason — probably from watching vids with stupid vorcha villains/evil minion type characters.

most notably, he understands prothean after his encounter with the beacon and exposure to the cipher. we don't really have an idea of what the prothean language sounds like exactly (since the collectors are heavily genetically modified and seem to have insect-like traits that protheans don't normally have. which May include a vast change in language/communication — but who tf knows, that's just my game theory), but i am leaning on him being able to replicate the sounds of whatever the prothean language to some decent extent... whatever that language originally sounded like. yes. this means he can speak prothean at javik. (and will be doing so. surprise mfer! but it is such a shame that mass effect never fully plays around with the implications of what the prothean beacon/cipher has done to shepard and their brain/dna, so i will be taking care of that!!)

tldr: the series in which we explore interactions with foreign human and alien languages when you don't come equipped with a translator, and contemplate questions like "should you give a 6-year-old a tupari®"

[meteorea]

thinking about cloud again as i neglect my replies but i’m thinking about his idea of love and how when he loves someone, he simply just. loves them. for them. regardless of romance or not, and i think that’s what makes his romantic relationships so complicated ( as well as intensely slow burn ), like i definitely hc him as demi (romantic and sexual) but there’s truly just something that goes beyond friendship, and also beyond romance for him, to the point that he can’t even quite put a name on it. and it’s also hard to dissect when you’re not sure who you really are and you figured out your last several years of existence were a fabrication of your traumatized brain that you’re projecting as a “lie” to feel guilty over while navigating the major depression you’ve had since you were a child that has been RAPIDLY EXACERBATED by all of this intense ass information as well as recovering from sephiroth induced psychotic-representing symptoms SO Y’KNOW IT’S ALL A BIT CONVOLUTED AND CHAOTIC but i feel like, even ten years later, even after healing (however long that journey takes!) even after discovering himself or discovering that himself may never be this point of reference he wishes he could understand because his self is so fluid and ever changing, there is always this blur in his romantic involvements where he understands he is interested romantically in *whoever he is romantically interested in given the verse* but it doesn’t have to be anything more. he doesn’t yearn for romance or the idea of being able to call someone his or vice verse, he yearns for connection. he yearns to know and be known, he yearns for intimacy. labels and expectations be damned ya know… he just wants to exist beside who he loves and hope they love him enough to do the same, through the good times and the bad. that being said, cloud initiating the “boyfriend” talk will simply never happen bc he doesn’t see the need for it

[demonsfate]

🔥 I had to~ I always appreciate your level minded takes~ I honestly don't think that Jin or Kazuya will ever get the redemption arcs they deserve. Thoughts?

unpopular opinions from the mun // accepting !

Most people say the point is Jin's not supposed to have a redemption arc in TK8, the point was him just moving on and learning to live with his sins. Which yeah, may be it, but most people still see it as a "redemption arc" when the Bad Guy is Good, and everyone's just friends with him now.

But you already know how I feel about Jin's characterization as a whole. When it comes to what he deserves, Jin should've never had to need a redemption arc to begin with. However, they definitely went about it wrong in T8. Which yes, again as I said above, technically Jin's story wasn't a "redemption arc". But we still had characters acting far too forgiving toward him when they shouldn't be. Jin asking, "do I deserve the right to desire life?" is sweet in the context of T8, but in the context of T6, it just makes you think "well buddy I'm sure those thousands you've killed also desired life, too." And again, you also find yourself questioning why this matters so much to Jin when it clearly didn't matter much to him in T6. I barely consider T8 to be Jin's "development" beyond him not wanting to die anymore, but instead just a return to basics (how he behaved in T3-T5) But Jin's arc of dealing with his T6 actions is over and I don't think they're really gonna revisit it again unless Miguel pops up and says "you killed my sister" and Jin says "sorry" and Miguel goes "oh right. Okay then."

As for Kazuya...

The problem is, I'm a very critical consumer. In fact, it's a surprise I haven't tried to become a more "professional" critic. I'm also a no-nonsense writer. When it comes to villains and if they're redeemable, I think there is a certain line they can't cross. Killing thousands of innocents, some potentially being children, is that line. However, clearly this works differently in Tekken. In Tekken, terrible actions aren't treated with the same weight that they're treated with in other stories or real life. Sure, nobody forgot what Jin did, but they also didn't exactly treat him like a mass murderer who's killed thousands, potentially millions. Lars doesn't act like Jin got his best friend (Tougou who?) killed, along with giving him and his girl PSTD, along with forcing his girl to fight her and "killing her", along with all the disrespectful, nasty things Jin said to Lars and the others.

I do think it's a high possibility Kazuya will be "redeemed" in T9, that we might see him and Jin make amends with each other. But I just don't think it's gonna be satisfactory to me. Canonically, both Kazuya and Jin's actions weren't worthy of a redemption that either didn't involve their deaths or them being virtual "outcasts" from society. I've had people try to argue with me, saying "but what about Vegeta from DBZ" - and it's like that's the thing. I don't really care for many animes or their tropes. Now, there are some animes I love. But... the majority of tropes and how it handles these villains is something I don't care for. So, if I watched DBZ, I'd probs be critical of that aspect, too, lol. Darth Vader is a character that comes to my mind because he was also a war criminal who killed millions, including children. He was redeemed, but only through death.

It's just hard to imagine Kazuya or Jin getting to live out happy, domestic lives after they've ravaged the world and ruined so many other lives. Of course, it's something I want more for Jin just because of the bad writing. Kazuya was always meant to be a villain or antagonistic character. He's been this way since T2. Jin, however, wasn't. Jin was only turned into this character in the 6th game after Harada insisted on it. But like, when the games tried to continue going with "Yah Jin did all that, what of it?" Then... yes, it is hard to imagine him living out a normal happy life with his only consequences for his many murders is just he felt bad about it and his daddy beat him up a few times.

T9's Kazuya will probs be a "slower" process than Jin, but in the end - he'll probs be redeemed by Jun's love, say "I won't try to kill our son anymore :3" and then help Jin defeat Reina.

So yeah. I just don't think neither will get a truly deep redemption arc, but honestly? It's about time where that much depth and consideration should be expected from the writing.

Also I guess an unpopular opinion of my own regarding Kazuya is that... I don't care if he gets redeemed honestly. As heartwarming as it is seeing the what ifs and him, Jin, and Jun being a happy family. I also just don't care if that happens or not. After all, not every villain needs a redemption arc. And with Tekken? We're at the point where they've been trying to convince us that Heihachi isn't that bad, and then they're trying to convince us that the motherfucking DEVIL cared about Jin and was actually good in a way. So like, not every character needs to be redeemed or needs a "oh wait, they're not as bad as you think!" As I said, it mattered so much with me about Jin because Jin should've never been depicted as a villain - it goes against his entire character and why I loved him. But Kazuya was always conceived as a villain. Therefore, the push for him to be redeemed just isn't as strong regardless of his tragic backstory.

And I mean that in all seriousness. Kazuya is a tragic character, but he's intentionally written as one. Not tragic because the writers did him dirty. Villain characters often are tragic and surrounded by tragedy. Because tragedy and trauma is what shapes many bad guys into the person they are. Not every villain with a tragic story needs a redemption arc - even if he does have loved ones, too.

Of course, this isn't to say I'm against Kazuya's redemption. I'm just explaining why I wouldn't care if it didn't happen.

[waxcasket]

Vibing especially hard w/ this ongoing vibe of pyro being tied to concepts of rebirth and my accidental slip into this idea w/ Auburn being the vessel of a god in process of rebirth / reawakening hrrrghgrgghrgh

[tvrningout-a]

y'all... new chiyo fc?? new chiyo fc :' ))

i've been iconing while i watch a.tsv and just!! she's so cute <3 and i'm so excited bc this is the closest i've gotten to a proper time-skip fc who matches what i imagine!! bc i've always thought that she'd stop dying her hair as she got older and let the brown grow out. and even the waviness of her hair matches up and i'm!! just really pleased uvu

[psyonicscream]

// btw guys my favourite shit to do on anon is to go into one specific person’s inbox at a point in time and post 3 or 2 really stupid asks and await patiently for the muses’s responses to my work of art if you enjoy this type of content be sure to tell me about your cool oc or something idk I tend to hyperfixate on random characters tbh