#*bird noises*

[vwampires]

you're letting your childhood trauma affect how you feel about a perfectly sane individual such as myself

[wander-wren]

decided to watch joehills after seeing him on scar’s stream and also just like, Around, and i became immediately obsessed and i’m busy telling anyone who will listen about him now. i’m sorry. why does this man not have more subscribers. he’s a national treasure

[palermok]

Woman Screams At Bird And It Screams Back And Other Says Hi

[axololtls]

[firebreathfishslap]

sorry I just finished my fifth(!) playthrough of tales of the abyss so i'm going to be extremely annoying about it for a bit

this is entire game spoilers, obviously

something I don't think i've ever really appreciated until this replay is just how complex Guy is as a character, and particularly the little subtleties in how his moods change. he's both very open and not open at all about his feelings. being with Luke makes him a better person, sometimes because he's in that caretaker/coddling mode where he lets Luke get away with shit when he shouldn't be, but also because Luke is his friend and he cares about him a lot

and one thing that really stuck out to me in this playthrough is WOW, GUY CAN'T STAND ASCH

I don't think it takes a lot of particularly complex analysis to pick up on this but something that becomes really apparent during Asch's brief time in the party + whenever Asch shows up afterwards is that Guy isn't really interested in playing nice with him. He's not exactly getting combative with him, but he's noticeably more serious whenever Asch is around and is not at all interested in spending time with him. There's a really noticeable tension during Asch's brief time as party lead with the whole party, but Guy ducking out early is clearly him deciding that he does not care for Asch and thinks he should be by Luke's side during his lowest point

And I think the reasons for why Guy does not like Asch are pretty clear cut, and Guy literally spells a couple of these things out to Luke a few times throughout the game

Guy and Luke are friends, Guy and Asch are not. Whatever potential friendship the two of them could have had was tainted by Guy's revenge plot (which specifically involved killing Asch in front of Duke Fabre!!! fucked up!!!). When Asch was "kidnapped" and Luke came back in his place, suddenly Guy was responsible for raising Luke, and those seven years completely changed Guy's perspective, and then that perspective changed AGAIN as he would have come to realize that the person he was friends with was technically never the Duke's son to begin with

ASCH IS SO MEAN TO LUKE LIKE ALL THE TIME. He's constantly calling him names! Luke's self-esteem is in the gutter for like the entirety of Act 3 because he can only think of himself as Asch's defective replacement and is worrying about how he doesn't have a place in the world, and Asch keeps reinforcing these feelings literally every time he's on screen! That's Guy's friend he's being mean to!!!

i think there's also something to be noted about how Guy is basically the only cast member who actually brings up Luke's age in relation to his maturity. there's been a lot of drama about how Luke is seven years old and so the shipping stuff is creepy over the past, uh, 18 years, but Luke does actually act like a seventeen year old. he's not a child.

(like if we start treating Luke like he's a child then boy do I have some questions about Ion and Sync)

Guy, however, does call him a child twice, and both times are in context of trying to convince Luke that he has a whole life ahead of him. Like the big scene everyone brings up in Daath is specifically Guy trying to convince his best friend not to kill himself.

and if I'm getting into hard headcanon territory, Guy probably thinks about Luke that way specifically because he's the one who had to raise him.

anyways I'm not really going anywhere with this beyond that I think Guy and Luke's relationship and the way they play off of each other is really fascinating. I feel like Guy is the character who our understanding of changes the most over the course of the game and where it ends up by the end is really, really interesting

[awkwardandeccentric]

Do you think Blitzø has Stolas’ bird noises memorized? Like, even if he doesn’t know exactly what they mean, he knows which ones mean happiness, which ones mean distress, which ones mean fear, etc. It looks like they’re involuntary, so it would make sense that Blitzø would pick up on those little details.

Side note: Stolas’ laugh sounds just like Paimon’s as an adult, but as a child, he sounded just like…well, a bird. It also seems to be the only thing he inherited from Paimon. Do you think he changed his laugh when he got older? The mask was sewn on that tightly that even his laugh he had to change?

[mychemicalraven]

Birb

Caw.

[lokisgoodgirl]

Bird noises???

Pacaw, bitch!! 🤣🤣

xxx

[wanderrealms]

Cleaning files and found this video of a large chicken approaching

[ishouldbeinthewoods]

I wanna go there🌕.

[swagittariusrising]

CHANGE IS HARD BUT I'M SO GOOD AT HANDLING IT

MY FRONTAL LOBE WORKS AND I CAN HANDLE CHANGE

[vwampires]

u can see the outline of my binder under my turtleneck lmfao it's sexy right. right. right. it's like lingerie. right.

[wander-wren]

big things brewing no one look at me (was consumed by brainworms and has 4k of a fic that did not exist two and a half hours ago)

[homeofhousechickens]

Beeper enraged i have not gotten up to pet her yet

[axololtls]

[tenpolegardener]

May in the garden